Episcopal Career
In 1985, Butler became Area Bishop of Willesden until he was appointed diocesan Bishop of Leicester in 1991 and translated to Southwark in 1998.
Butler has been active at national and international level. Until 1995 he chaired the follow-up to "Faith in the City", which published the controversial Staying in the City report. He chaired the General Synod's Board of Mission from 1995 until 2001 and is now Vice Chair Public Affairs of the Mission and Public Affairs Council. He is also Chair of the Governors of Ripon College, Cuddesdon. He served as the General Synod representative on the Inner Cities Religious Council, an initiative set up by the Department of the Environment, until 2001. Since mid-2003 the Bishop has represented the Church of England on the central committee of the World Council of Churches. He entered the House of Lords in 1997.
Butler is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day and has taken part in many other national and local TV and radio programmes. He has also co-authored two books with his wife Barbara: Just Mission and Just Spirituality in a World of Faiths. On 7 September 2009 he announced that he would retire on his 70th birthday, 5 March 2010.
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