The Bishop of Sheffield is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Sheffield in the Province of York.
The title was first created as a suffragan see in the Diocese of York in 1901. The only suffragan bishop of Sheffield assisted the Archbishop of York in overseeing the diocese. Under King George V, the Diocese of Sheffield was created out of the south-western part of the Diocese of York in 1914.
The current bishop is the Right Reverend Steven Croft, who is the seventh to hold the position and signs +Steven Sheffield. He is assisted by the Right Reverend Peter Burrows, suffragan Bishop of Doncaster.
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“Passing through here in 1795, Bishop Asbury commented, ‘The country improves in cultivation, wickedness, mills, and stills.’ Five years later, he held a meeting in the neighborhood and remarked that he thought most of the congregation had come to look at his wig.”
—Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)