List of Durham University People - Religion

Religion

Archbishops of Canterbury

• Michael Ramsey, Van Mildert Professor of Divinity
• Justin Portal Welby (St John's) - current Bishop of Durham, confirmed nominee to succeed Rowan Williams and to be officially appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Archbishops, Bishops, Priests and others

• Archbishop Walter Robert Adams (University) - Former Archbishop of Yukon
• The Rt. Rev. Thomas Makinson Armour - Bishop of Wangaratta
• The Rt. Rev. Robert Ronald Atwell - Bishop of Stockport
• The Rt. Rev. Clifford Conder Barker - Former Bishop of Whitby and Bishop of Selby
• The Rt. Rev. James Harold Bell (St John's) - the Bishop of Knaresborough
• The Rt. Rev. David Williams Bentley - 7th Bishop of Barbados
• John Henry Blunt - English divine
• The Rt. Rev. John Boys (Hatfield) - 4th Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman
• The Rt. Rev. Ronald Brown - Bishop of Birkenhead
• The Rt. Rev. Mark Bryant - Bishop of Jarrow
• The Rt. Rev. Cyril Bulley - Late Bishop of Penrith and Bishop of Carlisle
• The Rt. Rev. Sydney Caulton (St Chad's) - Bishop of Melanesia
• The Rt. Rev. Alan Chesters (St Chad's) - Former Bishop of Blackburn
• The Rt. Rev. Steven Croft (St John's) - Bishop of Sheffield (Took office in Spring 2009)
• The Rt. Rev. Harold Darby - former Bishop of Sherwood
• Margaret Dryburgh - missionary in Singapore, where she was captured in the Second World War. The plight of Dryburgh and her fellow inmates in a Japanese prisoner of war camp inspired the 1996 film Paradise Road.
• The Rt. Rev. Michael Doe - former Bishop of Swindon
• The Rt. Rev. Christopher Paul Edmondson (St John's) - Bishop of Bolton
• The Rt Rev Christopher Foster (Castle) - Bishop of Hertford
• The Rt. Rev. John Gaisford - Bishop of Beverley
• The Rt. Rev. Michael Frederick Gear (St John's) - former Suffragan Bishop of Doncaster
• The Rt. Rev. John Gladwin (St John's) - Bishop of Chelmsford
• The Rt. Rev. John Goddard - Bishop of Burnley
• The Most Rev. Drexel Gomez (St Chad's) - Primate of the Province of the West Indies
• The Very Rev. John Robert Hall (St Chad's) - Dean of Westminster
• The Rt. Rev. Michael Henshall (St Chad's) - Former Bishop of Warrington
• The Rt. Rev. George Hills (University) - first bishop of the Diocese of British Columbia.
• The Rt. Rev. John Taylor Hughes (Bede) - Former Bishop of Croydon and Bishop to the Forces
• The Rt. Rev. William Walsham How (University) - First Bishop of Wakefield
• The Rt Rev. John Inge, (St Chad's) - Bishop of Worcester
• Houn Jiyu-Kennett - Zen Buddhist teacher of the Sōtō school, founder of Shasta Abbey in the United States
• John Anthony McGuckin, Orthodox Christian priest, scholar, and poet
• The Rt. Rev Sandy Millar - an Anglican bishop appointed by the Church of Uganda as a Bishop in Mission to London
• The Rt. Rev. Cecil Norgate (St Chad's) - Former Bishop of Masasi
• The Rt. Rev Robert Paterson (St John's) - Bishop of Sodor and Man
• The Rt. Rev. Geoffrey Seagrave Pearson (St John's) - Anglican Bishop of Lancaster
• Anthony Russell (Chad's) - Lord Bishop of Ely
• The Rt. Rev John Saxbee (St John's) - Bishop of Lincoln
• Charles Thorp - former rector of Ryton, former Archdeacon of Durham, Virtual Founder and First Warden of the University, first master of University College.
• Bishop Michael Turnbull (St John's) - Bishop of Durham (1994–2003)
• The Reverend Richard Turnbull (St John's) - Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
• Bishop William Van Mildert - Former Bishop of Durham
• The Rev. Stephen Walker (St John's) - Vicar of Holy Trinity, Tewkesbury
• The Rt Rev. Martin Warner (St Chad's) - Bishop of Whitby
• The Rev. Stephen Warner (University) - Rector of Holy Trinity, Eastbourne
• The Rt Rev. Martin Wharton (Van Mildert) - Lord Bishop of Newcastle