John Thomson (bishop)

The Right Reverend John Thomson
Thomson in 2021
Church	Church of England
Diocese	Bishop of Selby
In office	July 2014 to present
Predecessor	Martin Wallace
Orders
Ordination	1985 (deacon) 1986 (priest) by David Lunn
Consecration	3 July 2014 by John Sentamu
Personal details
Born	(1959-07-01) 1 July 1959 (age 65) Edinburgh, Scotland
Nationality	British
Denomination	Anglicanism

John Bromilow Thomson (born 1 July 1959) is a Church of England bishop. Since 2014, he has been the Bishop of Selby, a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of York.

He began his ordained ministry as a curate and youth chaplain in the Diocese of Sheffield, before moving to South Africa and the Anglican Church of Southern Africa as a tutor at a theological college. He returned to Sheffield where he was a vicar from 1993 to 2001 and the director of ministry for the Diocese of Sheffield from 2001 to 2014.