Malcolm Macnaughton

William Malcolm Macnaughton (born 1957) is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2021, he has been Bishop of Repton, the suffragan bishop of the Church of England's Diocese of Derby Ordained ministry Macnaughton was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1981 and as a priest in 1982. He served his curacy at St Andrew's Church, Haughton-le-Skerne in the Diocese of Durham from 1981 to 1985. He then spent five years as priest-in-charge of All Saints Church, Newton Hall in the same diocese: this church is an Anglican-Methodist local ecumenical partnership. In 1990, he moved to the Diocese of London, where he became team vicar of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch and St. John the Baptist, Hoxton. He was additionally area dean of Hackney from 1994 to 1999. After a parish reorganisation, he was vicar of St. John the Baptist, Hoxton from 2000 to 2002. In 2002, Macnaughton moved to the Diocese of Oxford to become Team Rector of the Hambleden Valley Group, a multi-church benefice. He additionally became area dean of Wycombe in 2005. Then, from 2007 until his appointment as a bishop, he served as Chief of Staff to the Archbishop of York: first to John Sentamu then to Stephen Cottrell. He was made a canon and prebendary of York Minster in 2016.