title: Anglican Bishop of Ballarat
text: # Anglican Bishop of Ballarat
  
  The Bishop of Ballarat is the diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Ballarat, Australia.
  
  ## List of bishops
  
  Bishops of Ballarat :
  
  | No | From | Until | Incumbent | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | 1875 | 1900 | Samuel Thornton | Returned to England and became an honorary assistant bishop in Manchester. |
  | 2 | 1901 | 1915 | Arthur Green | Translated from Grafton and Armidale. |
  | 3 | 1917 | 1927 | Maxwell Maxwell-Gumbleton | Returned to England and became an honorary assistant bishop in Ipswich; later Bishop of Dunwich. |
  | 4 | 1927 | 1935 | Philip Crick | Translated from Rockhampton. |
  | 5 | 1936 | 1960 | William Johnson | Previously Dean of Newcastle. |
  | 6 | 1961 | 1975 | William Hardie | Previously Dean of Newcastle. |
  | 7 | 1975 | 1993 | John Hazlewood | Previously Dean of Perth. |
  | 8 | 1994 | 2003 | David Silk | Previously Archdeacon of Leicester; returned to England and became an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Exeter and, subsequently, a Roman Catholic priest. |
  | 9 | 2003 | 2010 | Michael Hough | Previously Bishop of the New Guinea Islands (1996–1998), Bishop of Port Moresby (1998–2001) |
  | 10 | 2011 | present | Garry Weatherill | Translated from Willochra. |
  