In retirement he served as an Assistant Bishop, firstly in the Diocese of Worcester and latterly at Wakefield.
He was chancellor of the diocese of Worcester in 1582, where Whitgift was bishop.
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Phillimore was appointed king's advocate in the court of admiralty on 25 Oct. 1834, and chancellor of the diocese of Worcester and commissary of the deanery of St Paul's Cathedral in the same year; chancellor of the diocese of Bristol in 1842, and judge of the consistory court of Gloucester in 1846.