 Three months later, he was nominated Bishop of Hereford by the Crown on 5 August and consecrated on 1 October 1837, by Archbishop Howley at Lambeth.At Hereford, he revived the office of rural dean, and was instrumental in setting up the Diocesan Church Building Society.On the death of Archbishop Edward Harcourt in 1847, he was translated to the archbishopric of York on 10 December 1847.