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.[1][2][3] 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.[4]

Name Date of conversion Previous church(es) Notes
John Clement Gordon 1702 (circa) Church of Scotland Bishop of Galloway, 1688–1689
Levi Silliman Ives 1852 Episcopal Church Bishop of North Carolina, 1831–1852
Frederick Joseph Kinsman 1919 Episcopal Church Bishop of Delaware, 1908–1919
Peter Francis Watterson 1984 Continuing Anglican movement
Graham Douglas Leonard 1994 Church of England Bishop of Willesden, 1964–1973

Bishop of Truro, 1973–1981
Bishop of London, 1981–1991

Conrad John Eustace Meyer 1994 Church of England Bishop of Dorchester, 1979–1988
Cecil Richard Rutt 1994 Church of England Bishop of Daejeon, 1968–1974

Bishop of St Germans, 1974–1979
Bishop of Leicester, 1979–1990

Clarence Cullam Pope 1995 Episcopal Church Bishop of Fort Worth, 1986–1995
Charles John Klyberg 1996 Church of England Bishop of Fulham, 1985–1996
John Bailey Lipscomb 2007 Episcopal Church Bishop of Southwest Florida, 1997–2007
Jeffrey Neil Steenson 2007 Episcopal Church Bishop of Rio Grande, 2004–2007
Paul Richardson 2009 Church of England

Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea
Anglican Church of Australia

Bishop of Aipo Rongo, 1987–1995

Bishop of Wangaratta, 1995–1997
Assistant Bishop of Newcastle, 1998–2009

Ross Owen Davies 2010 Anglican Church of Australia Bishop of The Murray, 2002–2010
Andrew Burnham 2011 Church of England Bishop of Ebbsfleet, 2000–2010
Edwin Barnes 2011 Church of England Bishop of Richborough, 1995–2002
John Charles Broadhurst 2011 Church of England Bishop of Fulham,1996–2010
Keith Newton 2011 Church of England Bishop of Richborough, 2002–2010
Robert David Silk 2011 Church of England

Anglican Church of Australia

Bishop of Ballarat, 1994–2003
Robert William Stanley Mercer 2012 Church of the Province of Central Africa

Anglican Catholic Church of Canada

Bishop of Matabeleland, 1977–1987

Metropolitan Bishop of Canada, 1988–2005

Carl Leonard Reid[5] 2012 Anglican Catholic Church of Canada
Peter Donald Wilkinson 2012 Anglican Church of Canada

Anglican Catholic Church of Canada

Harry Entwistle[6] 2012 Church of England

Anglican Church of Australia
Anglican Catholic Church in Australia

Mark Stephen Camp[7] 2013[8] Anglican Province of Christ the Good Shepherd Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Christ the King,[9] 2005–2013
David Lloyd Moyer 2014 Episcopal Church

Anglican Church in America

Raphael Kajiwara[10] 2015 Anglican Church in Japan

Traditional Anglican Communion

Bishop of Yokohama, 1984–2001
Jose Manuel Delgado 2018[11] United Anglican Church Bishop of Puerto Rico & Caribbean,[12] 2002–2018
Gavin Roy Pelham Ashenden 2019 Church of England

Christian Episcopal Church

Missionary bishop to the United Kingdom and Europe, 2017–2019
Jonathan Michael Goodall 2021[13] Church of England Bishop of Ebbsfleet, 2013–2021
Michael James Nazir-Ali 2021[14] Church of England

Church of Pakistan

Bishop of Rochester, 1994–2009

Bishop of Raiwind, 1984–1986

John William Goddard 2021 Church of England Bishop of Burnley, 2000–2014
Peter Robert Forster 2021[15] Church of England Bishop of Chester, 2001–2019
John Hepworth 2021[16] Anglican Church of Australia
Anglican Catholic Church in Australia 		Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion, 2002–2012
He was a Catholic priest before leaving Catholicism for Anglicanism
Richard Pain 2023[17] Church in Wales Bishop of Monmouth, 2013–2019
John Ford 2025[18] Church of England

Anglican Church of Australia

Bishop of Plymouth, 2005–2013

Bishop of The Murray, 2013–2019

References

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  2. ^ "Anglicans' regret over bishop's conversion to Rome". BBC News. 17 October 2010.
  3. ^ Girardot, Doug (15 September 2021). "Explainer: What happens when an Anglican bishop becomes Catholic?". America.
  4. ^ Collins, Charles (7 February 2022). "Fourth Anglican bishop in a year joins Catholic Church in UK". Crux. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
  5. ^ "Reverend Monsignor Carl Reid, PA". The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
  6. ^ "Reverend Monsignor Harry Entwistle, PA". The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
  7. ^ "Obituary: Mark Stephen Camp". www.dignitymemorial.com. Retrieved 23 August 2025.
  8. ^ "Portraits of Christ: Portraits of Christ as Painted in the Gospel of John". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 23 August 2025.
  9. ^ "The Archdiocese of Christ the King". www.ctkanglican.org. Archived from the original on 2006-09-06. Retrieved 2025-08-23.
  10. ^ "Our Thanks to Father Raphael Kajiwara" (PDF). Newsletter of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross Vol 2 No 1 January 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
  11. ^ "Fr. Jose Delgado, SA, Ordained to the Catholic Priesthood". www.atonementfriars.org. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  12. ^ "Directory of Dioceses and Parishes (United Anglican Church)". www.unitedanglicanchurch.org/index.html. Archived from the original on 2007-08-12. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
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  14. ^ "Dr Michael Nazir-Ali received into the Ordinariate". www.churchtimes.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2022-02-11. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
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