The King has approved the nomination of the Reverend Dr Jitesh Krisnakant Patel to the Suffragan See of Jarrow in the Diocese of Durham, 10 Downing Street announced on 23 October 2026. He succeeds the Right Reverend Sarah Clark, who moved to the See of Ely.

Patel is Acting Director of St Mellitus College East Midlands and Associate Vicar at Holy Trinity Church in the Diocese of Leicester. He studied at Jesus College, University of Oxford, earned a PhD through the Lambeth Research Degrees in Theology and trained for ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He served his title at Christ Church, Abingdon, in the Diocese of Oxford and was ordained Priest in 2011.

In 2015 he became Associate Vicar at St Jude's Church, Southsea, in the Diocese of Portsmouth. From 2018 he was Diocesan Director of Contextual Training while also serving as Associate Vicar for Training and Development at Holy Trinity Church in Leicester, and in 2019 he was appointed Assistant Director and Lecturer in Theology at St Mellitus College East Midlands alongside that role. He also serves on a bishop's council and a national patronage board, is a board member of the 30K Project and is an author. He is married to Bridget and they have two daughters.