Bishop of Leicester

The Bishop of Leicester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Leicester in the Province of Canterbury.

The diocese covers most of the County of Leicestershire. The see is in the City of Leicester where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Martin, formerly a parish church, which was elevated to cathedral status in 1927.

The area first held a bishopric in 680, and the Saxon cathedral was probably located close to (if not on the site of) the present cathedral. The original diocese fell victim to the invasion by the Danes around 870. At the time of the Reformation, in 1539 a new cathedral was being erected. However this structure was never completed and it was another three centuries before Leicester was finally to regain its see in 1927. Before this time however there had been suffragan bishops of Leicester whilst the bishopric was still within the its parent diocese. The current bishop is the Right Reverend Dr Timothy John Tim Stevens , the 6th Lord Bishop of Leicester, who signs Timothy Leicester.

List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Leicester, England and its precursor offices