In contrast to a usual chaplain (a priest serving a specific group of people), a bishop's chaplain or archbishop's chaplain is chaplain to a bishop only. The office exists in the Anglican churches, the Lutheran churches and the Roman Catholic Church.
A bishop's chaplain also acts as their private secretary, attends and assists the bishop at all services where the bishop uses the mitre and crozier, acts as proxy on some bodies and generally ministers to and prays for them.
John Potter was Archbishop of Canterbury (1737–1747).
Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron Runcie, was an English Anglican bishop. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991, having previously been Bishop of St Albans. He travelled the world widely to spread ecumenicism and worked to foster relations with both Protestant and Catholic churches across Europe. He was a leader of the Liberal Anglo-Catholicism movement. He came under attack for expressing compassion towards bereaved Argentines after the Falklands War of 1982, and generated controversy by supporting women's ordination.
Anthony John Russell is a retired Anglican bishop. He was the Diocesan Bishop of Ely from 2000 to 2010, having previously served as an area bishop in the Diocese of Oxford from 1988.
Carl Cooper is a former Anglican bishop who was the Bishop of St. David's from 2002 to 2008.
Douglas Geoffrey Rowell was an Anglican bishop, who served as Bishop of Basingstoke and then as the third Bishop in Europe until his retirement on 8 November 2013. Following his retirement he ministered as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Chichester and in the Diocese of Portsmouth. He died in the early morning of Trinity Sunday, 11 June 2017.
Alwyn Terrell Petre Williams was Bishop of Durham (1939–1952) and then Bishop of Winchester (1952–1961).
Augustine John Hodson was the first Bishop of Tewkesbury from 1938 until his resignation in 1955.
Paul Fulcrand Delacour De Labillière was the second Bishop of Knaresborough from 1934 to 1937; and, subsequently, Dean of Westminster.
Charles Chapman Grafton was the second Episcopal Bishop of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
William Alonzo Parker was a former Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury.
George Hooper was a learned and influential English High church cleric of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He served as bishop of the Welsh diocese, St Asaph, and later for the diocese of Bath and Wells, as well as chaplain to members of the royal family.
Geoffrey Lewis Tiarks was a British Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Maidstone in the latter part of the 20th century.
Arthur Ivan Greaves was an Anglican bishop in the mid 20th century.
Roger Plumpton Wilson was Bishop of Wakefield, and later Chichester, in the mid 20th century.
Cyril William Johnston Bowles was the fourth Bishop of Derby, from 1969 to 1988.
Robert David Silk is an English priest of the Roman Catholic Church. He was formerly an Anglican bishop and was the Bishop of Ballarat in the Anglican Church of Australia.
Albert Basil Orme Wilberforce was an Anglican priest and author in the second half of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th. He was the Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons and Archdeacon of Westminster.
Daniel Ivor Evans CBE was an Anglican bishop in South America in the mid 20th century.
Janet Elizabeth "Jan" McFarlane is a British Church of England bishop and former speech and language therapist. She has been a Canon Residentiary of Lichfield Cathedral and honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Lichfield since 2020. She previously served as Bishop of Repton since her consecration as a bishop on 29 June 2016; and (additionally) Acting Bishop of Derby from 31 August 2018 to February 2019.
Samuel Joseph Wylie was the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan, serving from 1972 to 1974.
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