 In 1807 he became bishop of Bristol, in 1808 he was translated as bishop of Hereford, and in 1815 to bishop of St Asaph.In 1808 he resigned the deanery of Gloucester, and in 1816 the benefice of St. Andrew's, Holborn.Luxmoore held, as was usual, the archdeaconry of St Asaph at the same time as the bishopric, and had other preferments.