The Diocese of Blackburn is a Church of England diocese, covering much of Lancashire, created on 12 November 1926 from part of the Diocese of Manchester. The diocese includes the towns of Blackburn, Blackpool and Burnley, the cities of Lancaster and Preston, as well as a large part of the Ribble Valley. The cathedral is Blackburn Cathedral. The See is currently vacant following the retirement of Julian Henderson.
Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs, until 1898 known as Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman, was an influential Church of England clergyman who served as the only Bishop of Southwark to be a suffragan bishop, the 105th Bishop of Worcester and, latterly, as the inaugural bishop of the restored see of Coventry in the modern era.
Martin Linton Smith, was an Anglican bishop who served in three dioceses during the first half of the twentieth century.
Henry Luke Paget (1853−1937) was the 4th Anglican Bishop of Stepney from 1909 until 1919 when he was appointed Bishop of Chester.
Maxwell Homfray Maxwell-Gumbleton was an Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century.
Campbell West-Watson was successively an Anglican suffragan bishop, diocesan bishop and archbishop over a 40-year period during the first half of the 20th century.
Arthur Llewellyn Preston was an Anglican bishop who served as the third Bishop of Woolwich from 1932 until his death.
Charles James Ferguson-Davie (1872–1963) was an Anglican bishop, the first Bishop of Singapore, appointed 1910.
Atherton Gwillym Rawstorne was the Bishop of Whalley from 1909 to 1936; and Archdeacon of Blackburn from 1922 to 1936.
Arthur Thomas Lloyd was an Anglican bishop. He served as Bishop of Thetford and as Bishop of Newcastle (1903–1907).
Robert Jarratt Crosthwaite was the inaugural Bishop of Beverley in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Robert Edward Trefusis was the first suffragan Bishop of Crediton from 1897 to 1930.
Welbore MacCarthy (1840–1925) was the first Bishop of Grantham: 1905 until 1920.
Anthony Otter was an Anglican bishop who served as the sixth Bishop of Grantham, from 1949 to 1965.
Alexander Kenneth Hamilton was an eminent Anglican clergyman during the second half of the 20th century.
Winfrid Oldfield Burrows was the Bishop of Truro and later Chichester in the first third of the 20th century.
John Hugh Granville Randolph was the Bishop of Guildford and then Dean of Salisbury in the Church of England in the first decades of the 20th century.
Francis Henry Thicknesse was the inaugural Bishop suffragan of Leicester from 1888 until 1903.
Michael Bolton Furse, KCMG was an eminent Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century.
Arthur Mesac Knight was the third Bishop of Rangoon from 1903 to 1909.
