David Urquhart

In December 2018, Urquhart was cited in an independent review of the ten-year handling of an abuse case in the Birmingham diocese. The report, seen by Channel 4, found the church "fell short on a number of basic standards of complaint handling” and delivered damning findings about the Bishop of Birmingham's response in 2011. It said he “lacked adequate knowledge of safeguarding and the capacity to manage the process". The survivor claimed she had been warned by an unnamed bishop not to talk to the media as it wouldn't be “very godly”. She was also forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement before seeing the review into her own case. Urquhart apologised to her and her husband “for the upset and anguish that you both have suffered as a result of the mistakes I have made in the handling of your complaint”.

His appointment as Bishop of Birmingham was announced in 2006 and he was enthroned on 17 November 2006, succeeding John Sentamu after Sentamu's appointment as Archbishop of York. Around 800 people attended his enthronement in Birmingham Cathedral. Urquhart was introduced as a Lord Spiritual to the House of Lords on 26 October 2010. He became the Convenor of the Lords Spiritual on 18 May 2015.

He was ordained a deacon at Petertide 1984 (1 July), by John Habgood, Archbishop of York, at York Minster, and a priest the next year, and served in Hull before becoming the vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Coventry in 1992; for his last year in Coventry, he was an honorary canon of the cathedral. He was appointed suffragan Bishop of Birkenhead in the Diocese of Chester in 2000. Urquhart acts as the Archbishop of Canterbury's envoy to China and accompanied him on a visit to China in October 2006. Urquhart was appointed Prelate of the Order of St Michael and St George in 2005 and holds the Freedom of the Borough of Wirral. He is unmarried.

Urquhart was educated at Croftinloan School, near Pitlochry, and at Rugby School. After a career in commercial management with British Petroleum before studying at Ealing Technical College Business School (Bachelor of Arts BA in Business Studies, 1977), he trained for the ordained ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.

David Andrew Urquhart, KCMG (born 14 April 1952) is a Scottish bishop. He is the ninth Bishop of Birmingham in the Church of England.