Ian Bishop

Ian Gregory Bishop (born 13 November 1962) is a British Anglican bishop. Since September 2023, he has been Bishop of Thetford, a suffragan bishop in the Church of England's Diocese of Norwich. He was Archdeacon of Macclesfield in the Diocese of Chester from 2011 to 2023. Early life and education Bishop was born on 13 November 1962 in Devizes, Wiltshire, England. He was educated at Devizes School, a comprehensive school in the town. He studied urban and land administration at Portsmouth Polytechnic, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1984. He worked as a chartered surveyor, and became a Professional Associate of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (ARICS) in 1986 or 1987. He was a surveyor for Croydon Council from 1984 to 1986 and an estate manager at Gatwick Airport from 1986 to 1988. He then trained for ordination at Oak Hill College, a conservative evangelical theological college, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1991. Ordained ministry Bishop was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1991 and as a priest in 19922. From 1991 to 1995, he served his curacy at Christ Church, Purley, in the Diocese of Southwark. He then became priest-in-charge of St Mary the Virgin, Saxlingham Nethergate and Shotesham in the Diocese of Norwich. After pastoral reorganisation, he was rector of the newly created Tas Valley Team Ministry from 1998 to 2001. He moved to the Diocese of Chester, and was he was Rector of St Michael and All Angels, Middlewich and St John the Evangelist's Church, Byley from 2001 to 2011. He was additionally rural dean of Middlewich from 2005 to 2010. He left parish ministry and became the Archdeacon of Macclesfield in January 2011. He is a director of the Simeon Trustees, a trust established in the nineteenth century by Charles Simeon to purchase advowsons for Anglican ministers aligned with the Evangelical Anglicanism.