On 25 September 2013, Snow was
consecrated a bishop by
Justin Welby,
Archbishop of Canterbury, during a service in
Westminster Abbey. In October 2013, he started his duties as
Bishop of Tewkesbury, a
suffragan bishop in the
Diocese of Gloucester. On 15 December 2015, it was announced that Snow would be
translated to
Leicester in 2016. Snow officially became Bishop of Leicester with the
confirmation of his
election on 22 February 2016. He then become the youngest
diocesan bishop in the
Church of England, aged 48. On 14 May 2016, a service of
installation was held at
Leicester Cathedral during which he was seated on his
Cathedra and given the
crozier of the Diocese of Leicester. In May 2016 Snow was one of six bishops cited in
The Guardian and
Church Times as subject of Clergy Disciplinary Measure complaints owing to their alleged inaction on a disclosure by a sexual assault survivor. The bishops contested the complaints. From October that year, Snow sat on the Church of England's National Safeguarding Steering Group (NSSG). He resigned in 2020. In 2021, Snow was involved in a diocesan
HR investigation into the activities of a female
licensed lay minister, who was accused of stalking and harassing
Jay Hulme, churchwarden of
St Nicholas Church, Leicester. In an interview with the BBC in June 2025, Hulme reported that Snow had declined to uphold his complaint against the licensed lay minister. In Hulme's account of this meeting, he stated that Snow accused him of having conducted a séance in the church, and of practising witchcraft, and told Hulme that the process for him to begin training for the priesthood would be slowed. The licensed lay minister subsequently pleaded guilty to stalking and received an 18-month community order. A statement from the Diocese of Leicester on 29 June 2025 confirmed that Bishop Snow had received the advice of an independent HR expert in May 2022 that the complaint against the licensed lay minister should be upheld, but that he had chosen not to withdraw her licence. He subsequently did so on 25 July 2022, following the receipt of further evidence. A subsequent statement also confirmed that Snow had brought up the alleged séance and use of tarot cards in his initial conversation with Hulme, but denied the claim that he had accused him of witchcraft. A final statement on 30 June added that the Diocese of Leicester had been advised to lodge a formal complaint against the BBC for their coverage. Between 2017 and 2024, Snow was chair of the College of Archbishops' Evangelists. In April 2021, Snow became the bishop protector for the
third order of
Franciscans, the
Third Order Society of St Francis (TSSF). Snow is also sponsoring bishop for the Church of England project to grow the number of children and youth ministers in the church to 30,000. He is also a member of the Committee for Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns. In Leicester, Snow is also chair of the Oversight Group for Leicester Homelessness Charter, an umbrella organisation for businesses, charities and statutory agencies who work with people who have experienced homelessness. He became a member of the
House of Lords (as a
Lord Spiritual) on 6 October 2022. ==Views and positions==