Bishop of Whitby

The Bishop of Whitby is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of York, in the Province of York, England. The title takes its name after the town of Whitby in North Yorkshire. The Bishop of Whitby oversees the Archdeaconry of Cleveland. Following Philip North's declining the appointment he had originally accepted in the face of opposition over the issue of women ordained as bishops, on 3 July 2014 Paul Ferguson was consecrated as Bishop of Whitby.

The Bishop of Whitby formerly had episcopal oversight of traditionalist parishes in the whole Diocese of York. Bates agreed not to ordain women and Ladds and Warner were both opponents of the ordination of women; however with the appointment of Ferguson, a supporter of women's ordination, oversight has been passed to Glyn Webster, Bishop of Beverley (as PEV.)

List of bishops

Bishops of Whitby
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1923	1939	Henry Woollcombe	(1869–1941). Translated to Selby.
1939	1947	Harold Hubbard	(1883–1953). Retired.
1947	1954	Walter Baddeley	(1894–1960). Translated to Blackburn.
1954	1961	Philip Wheeldon	(1913–1992). Translated to Kimberley and Kuruman.
1961	1972	George Snow	(1907–1991). Retired.
1972	1975	John Yates	(1925–2008). Translated to Gloucester.
1976	1983	Clifford Barker	(b. 1926). Translated to Selby
1983	1999	Gordon Bates	(b. 1934). Retired.
1999	2008	Robert Ladds SSC	(b. 1941). Retired.
2010	2012	Martin Warner SSC	(b. 1958). Translated to Chichester in 2012.
3 July 2014	present	Paul Ferguson	Previously Archdeacon of Cleveland.
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External links

• Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings