Tenure Name Notes 1976 to 1981 Leonard Ashton Inaugural bishop; died 2001 1981 to 1986 Henry Wylie Moore General secretary, Church Missionary Society, 1986–89, retired as bishop in 1991 1986 to 1996 John Brown Briefly rural dean of Grimsby (2003 to 2004); died 2011 1997 to 2007 Clive Handford Now an assistant bishop, Diocese of Ripon and Leeds 2007 to present Michael Lewis Formerly bishop of Middleton