| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
| Anthony Sparrow | |
| Bishop of Norwich | |
| Diocese: | Norwich |
| Term: | 1676–1685 (death) |
| Predecessor: | Edward Reynolds |
| Successor: | William Lloyd |
| Other Post: | Bishop of Exeter (1667–1676) |
| Birth Date: | baptized 7 May 1612 |
| Birth Place: | Depden, Suffolk |
| Death Place: | Bishop's Palace, Norwich |
| Buried: | Bishop's Palace, Norwich |
| Nationality: | British |
| Religion: | Anglican |
| Alma Mater: | Queens' College, Cambridge |
| Consecration: | 3 November 1667 |
| Consecrated By: | Gilbert Sheldon |
Anthony Sparrow (1612–1685) was an English Anglican priest. He was Bishop of Norwich and Bishop of Exeter.[1]
Born in 1612, Sparrow was educated and became a fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge, and was ordained a priest in February 1635. He was an adherent to the Laudianism movement. In April 1644 under the parliamentarian purge of the university, he was ejected for non-residence by Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester.[1] In 1647, he was ejected from rectory of Hawkedon for using the outlawed Book of Common Prayer. Following the Restoration, he was reinstated in 1660; and held the post of Archdeacon of Sudbury from then until 1667. In 1667, he became Bishop of Exeter and in 1676 he was promoted to bishop of Norwich.[1] He died on 19 May 1685. In his will, he left £100 to the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral.[1]
He married and left at his death several daughters as his co-heiresses, one of whom was Joan Sparrow (d. 1703), wife of Edward Drew (d. 1714) of The Grange, Broadhembury, Devon, a Canon of Exeter Cathedral.[2]