List of Anglican bishops who converted to Catholicism

This is a list of notable Anglican bishops who converted to the Catholic Church.

A broad definition of 'Anglican' is employed here, including churches within the Anglican Communion, but also those of the Continuing Anglican movement which formed following controversy over various actual or proposed theological and doctrinal reforms, such as the ordination of women. These reforms have reportedly spurred on individual bishops to leave their own churches to join the Catholic Church. During a year-long period across 2021 and 2022, four Church of England bishops converted to Catholicism; all four no longer presided over a see at the times of their conversions.

+NameDate of conversionPrevious church(es)NotesJohn Clement Gordon1702 (circa)Church of ScotlandBishop of Galloway, 1688–1689Levi Silliman Ives1852Episcopal ChurchBishop of North Carolina, 1831–1852Frederick Joseph Kinsman1919Episcopal ChurchBishop of Delaware, 1908–1919Peter Francis Watterson1984Continuing Anglican movementGraham Douglas Leonard1994Church of EnglandBishop of Willesden, 1964–1973 Bishop of Truro, 1973–1981 Bishop of London, 1981–1991Conrad John Eustace Meyer1994Church of EnglandBishop of Dorchester, 1979–1988Cecil Richard Rutt1994Church of EnglandBishop of Daejeon, 1968–1974 Bishop of St Germans, 1974–1979 Bishop of Leicester, 1979–1990Clarence Cullam Pope1995Episcopal ChurchBishop of Fort Worth, 1986–1995Charles John Klyberg1996Church of EnglandBishop of Fulham, 1985–1996John Bailey Lipscomb2007Episcopal ChurchBishop of Southwest Florida, 1997–2007Jeffrey Neil Steenson2007Episcopal ChurchBishop of Rio Grande, 2004–2007Paul Richardson2009Church of England Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea Anglican Church of AustraliaBishop of Aipo Rongo, 1987–1995 Bishop of Wangaratta, 1995–1997 Assistant Bishop of Newcastle, 1998–2009Ross Owen Davies2010Anglican Church of AustraliaBishop of The Murray, 2002–2010Andrew Burnham2011Church of EnglandBishop of Ebbsfleet, 2000–2010Edwin Barnes2011Church of EnglandBishop of Richborough, 1995–2002John Charles Broadhurst2011Church of EnglandBishop of Fulham,1996–2010Keith Newton2011Church of EnglandBishop of Richborough, 2002–2010Robert David Silk2011Church of England Anglican Church of AustraliaBishop of Ballarat, 1994–2003Robert William Stanley Mercer2012Church of the Province of Central Africa Anglican Catholic Church of CanadaBishop of Matabeleland, 1977–1987 Metropolitan Bishop of Canada, 1988–2005Carl Leonard Reid2012Anglican Catholic Church of CanadaPeter Donald Wilkinson2012Anglican Church of Canada Anglican Catholic Church of CanadaHarry Entwistle2012Church of England Anglican Church of Australia Anglican Catholic Church in AustraliaMark Stephen Camp2013Anglican Province of Christ the Good ShepherdArchbishop of the Archdiocese of Christ the King, 2005–2013David Lloyd Moyer2014Episcopal Church Anglican Church in AmericaRaphael Kajiwara2015Anglican Church in Japan Traditional Anglican CommunionBishop of Yokohama, 1984–2001Jose Manuel Delgado2018United Anglican ChurchBishop of Puerto Rico & Caribbean, 2002–2018Gavin Roy Pelham Ashenden2019Church of England Christian Episcopal ChurchMissionary bishop to the United Kingdom and Europe, 2017–2019Jonathan Michael Goodall2021Church of EnglandBishop of Ebbsfleet, 2013–2021Michael James Nazir-Ali2021Church of England Church of PakistanBishop of Rochester, 1994–2009 Bishop of Raiwind, 1984–1986John William Goddard2021Church of EnglandBishop of Burnley, 2000–2014Peter Robert Forster2021Church of EnglandBishop of Chester, 2001–2019John Hepworth2021"Fr. John Hepworth, 1944-2021: Former TAC Primate, Ordinariate Visionary, Reunited to Catholic Church", Anglicanorum Coetibus Society website.Anglican Church of AustraliaAnglican Catholic Church in AustraliaPrimate of the Traditional Anglican Communion, 2002–2012He was a Catholic priest before leaving Catholicism for AnglicanismRichard Pain2023Church in WalesBishop of Monmouth, 2013–2019John Ford2025Church of England Anglican Church of AustraliaBishop of Plymouth, 2005–2013 Bishop of The Murray, 2013–2019

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