Anthony "Tony" Porter (born 10 February 1952) is a 21st-century Church of England prelate, who served as Suffragan Bishop of Sherwood in the diocese of Southwell and Nottingham from 2006 to 2020.
[1] Educated at Gravesend Grammar School, Porter went up to read English at Hertford College, Oxford (MA),[2] before studying for the priesthood at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, graduating BA (Theol).
Porter was ordained a deacon on St Peter's Day (29 June) 1977 by Bill Westwood, Bishop of Edmonton, at John Keble Church, Mill Hill,[3] and a priest the Petertide following (25 June 1978) by Gerald Ellison, Bishop of London, at St Paul's Cathedral.
In 1991, Porter was collated as rector of Holy Trinity Platt Church, Rusholme, in the diocese of Manchester.
[7] Consecrated a bishop on 21 March 2006 at York Minster by John Sentamu, Archbishop of York,[8] Porter later served briefly as Acting Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham, from the translation of Paul Butler to the bishopric of Durham on 20 January[9] until he relinquished the additional role due to ill health on 9 April 2014.