Michael Geoffrey Ipgrave OBE (born 18 April 1958) is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2016, he has been the 99th Bishop of Lichfield, the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Lichfield. He was the Bishop of Woolwich, an area bishop in the Diocese of Southwark, from 2012 to 2016.^[2] He served as Archdeacon of Southwark between 2004 and 2012.

Ipgrave was born on 18 April 1958 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom.^[3] He was educated at Magdalen College School, Brackley, a state school in South Northamptonshire.^[4] From 1975 to 1978, he studied mathematics at Oriel College, Oxford, and graduated from the University of Oxford with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.^[3]

From 1979 to 1980, he attended the Spring Hill Ordination Scheme in Birmingham.^[5] From 1979 to 1982, he trained for ordination at Ripon College Cuddesdon, an Anglican theological college near Oxford.^[3][6] During that period he also studied theology at the University of Oxford, and graduated with an additional first class BA.^[3] In 1999 Ipgrave completed a doctorate at Durham University with a thesis entitled Trinity and inter-faith dialogue: plenitude and plurality.^[7]

Ipgrave was ordained in the Church of England: made a deacon at Petertide 1982 (27 June)^[8] and ordained a priest in the Petertide following (26 June 1983) — both times by Douglas Feaver, Bishop of Peterborough, at Peterborough Cathedral.^[9] After a curacy in Oakham followed by time in Japan, he was a team vicar in two separate Leicester parishes.^[1]

In Leicester, in 1991, he was appointed diocesan chaplain for relations with people of other faiths, and bishops' domestic chaplain in 1992. He was appointed Archdeacon of Southwark in 2004. In 2010 he also became Canon Missioner of Southwark Cathedral. He was co-chair of Southwark and London Housing Association (now Amicus Horizon)

He was formerly Inter Faith Relations Advisor to the Archbishops' Council and secretary of the Churches' Commission on Inter-Faith Relations.

In 1981, Ipgrave married Julia Bailey.^[4][5] Together they have raised three children.^[6]

In the 2011 New Year Honours, Ipgrave was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for services to inter-faith relations in London".^[17]

He has edited six volumes on Christian and Muslim relations. He is author of Trinity and Inter Faith Dialogue, and has contributed to journal articles and book chapters on inter-faith matters.

• Ipgrave, Michael (1994). Christ in ten thousand places: a Catholic perspective on Christian encounter with other faiths. London: Dartman, Longman and Todd. ISBN 978-0232520798.
• Ipgrave, Michael (2003). Trinity and inter faith dialogue: plenitude and plurality. Bern: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3906769776.