Sean Alexander John Semple is a South Africa-born Anglican bishop.
Since 2024, he has been the sixth bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf in the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, a diocese encompassing Cyprus and the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula states of Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Yemen.
[5] In 2015, Semple moved to England to serve in the Diocese of Hereford, first as vicar of Weobley with Sarnesfield and Norton Canon and later as rector of Ross with Walford and Brampton Abbotts.
[4] In February 2024, Semple was elected bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf following the retirement of Michael Lewis.
He was consecrated to the episcopate by Archbishop Hosam Naoum and enthroned at St. Christopher's Church in Bahrain on 24 May 2024.