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Bishop Of Swindon
The Bishop of Swindon is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Bristol, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after the town of Swindon in Wiltshire. The title of Bishop of Malmesbury was the precursor title, named after Malmesbury in Wiltshire; the See was erected under the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888 by Order in Council An Order-in-Council is a type of legislation in many countries, especially the Commonwealth realms. In the United Kingdom this legislation is formally made in the name of the monarch by and with the advice and consent of the Privy Council (''Kin ... dated 25 July 1927. List of bishops of Swindon References External links Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings Swindon {{Anglican-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episcopal Polity
An episcopal polity is a Hierarchy, hierarchical form of Ecclesiastical polity, church governance ("ecclesiastical polity") in which the chief local authorities are called bishops. (The word "bishop" derives, via the British Latin and Vulgar Latin term ''*ebiscopus''/''*biscopus'', from the Ancient Greek ''epískopos'' meaning "overseer".) It is the structure used by many of the major Christian Churches and Christian denomination, denominations, such as the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodox, Church of the East, Anglicanism, Anglican, Lutheranism, Lutheran and Methodist churches or denominations, and other churches founded independently from these lineages. Churches with an episcopal polity are governed by bishops, practising their authorities in the dioceses and Episcopal Conference, conferences or synods. Their leadership is both sacramental and constitutional; as well as performing ordinations, confirmations, and cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivor Watkins
Ivor Stanley Watkins (10 November 189624 October 1960) was an Anglican bishop who served in two posts between 1946 and his death. Watkins was born in 1896 and educated at Hereford Cathedral School. During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a stretcher-bearer and was gassed. He spent considerable time in hospital where he learnt the 3-card trick which he used to entertain children. After the war he briefly attended the emergency ordination school at Knutsford before gaining a place at Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he was awarded a degree in history and theology. He was made deacon on Trinity Sunday 1924 (15 June) at St John's Bedminster (his title parish) and ordained a priest that Advent (21 December 1924) at Bristol Cathedral, both times by George Nickson, Bishop of Bristol. Following a curacy in Bedminster, he rose steadily in the Church hierarchy, being successively Vicar of ''St Gregory’s'' Horfield, rural dean, then Archdeac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Rayfield
Lee Stephen Rayfield (born 30 September 1955) is the current Bishop of Swindon.Official notification of appointment Education and medical career Rayfield was educated at the , where he gained a (BSc) honours degree in in 1978. He then studied for his |
Michael Doe (bishop)
Michael David Doe (born 24 December 1947) is the Preacher of Gray's Inn and a former Bishop of Swindon. Doe was born in Lymington, Hants, and grew up on the Highfield Council Estate there. He attended Brockenhurst Grammar School and went on to Durham University (Bachelor of Arts ). After studying at Ripon Hall, Oxford, he was ordained priest in 1973 in Southwark Cathedral. He was a curate on the St Helier Estate in South London, after which he was National Youth Secretary at the British Council of Churches. He moved to Oxford in 1981 to be Priest Missioner in the Blackbird Leys Ecumenical Partnership, and also served as Rural Dean of Cowley from 1987-1989. During this time he co-presented the weekly religious affairs programme on BBC Radio Oxford: "Spirit Level". He was then Social Responsibility Advisor to the Diocese of Portsmouth and a canon residentiary (later, Acting Provost) at Portsmouth Cathedral, before his ordination to the episcopate in 1994 when he became the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Firth (bishop)
Peter James Firth (born 12 July 1929) was the Bishop suffragan of Malmesbury from 1983 until 1994. Firth was educated at Stockport Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1955 and was a curate at St Stephen's Barbourne. Following this he was priest in charge at the Church of the Ascension, Malvern and then Rector of St George's Gorton and in the early 1960's was a regular contributor to religious broadcasts at BBC Manchester. From 1967 to 1983 he worked in various capacities for the Religious Broadcasting Unit at BBC South West. He was ordained to the episcopate by Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 30 November 1983 at Southwark Cathedral. He retired in 1994 and is an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Gloucester The Diocese of Gloucester is a Church of England diocese based in Gloucester, covering the non-metropolitan county of Gloucestershire. The cathedral is Gloucester Cathedral and the bishop is the Bishop of Gloucest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freddy Temple
Frederick Stephen "Freddy" Temple (24 November 1916 – 26 November 2000) was the Suffragan Bishop of Malmesbury in the Diocese of Bristol from 1973 until 1983. Temple was the grandson of Frederick Temple and the nephew of William Temple, both Archbishops of Canterbury. He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1948 and was a curate in Newark and later Rector of St Agnes' Longsight and Dean of Hong Kong. He returned to England to be senior chaplain to Geoffrey Fisher, then Archbishop of Canterbury. He was then Vicar of St Mary’s Portsea, Portsmouth, the largest parish in the city, and then Archdeacon of Malmesbury until his ordination to the episcopate. He retired in 1983''The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' (f ...'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Bishop (bishop)
Clifford Leofric Purdy "Jim" Bishop was the Suffragan Bishop of Malmesbury from 1962 until 1973 in the Church of England. Life He was born on 11 June 1908 and educated at St. John's School, Leatherhead and Christ's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1933“ Crockford's clerical directory, 1995” (Lambeth,Church House ) and later Vicar of St George's, Camberwell, he was also Rural Dean of Walsingham and then Wearmouth until his ordination to the episcopate A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca .... He died on 1 September 1994. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bishop, Clifford Leofric Purdy 1908 births People educated at St John's School, Leatherhead Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge 20th-century Church of England bishops Bishops of Swindon (previously Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Of Kensington
The Bishop of Kensington is an episcopal title used by an area bishop of the Church of England Diocese of London, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The Bishop of Kensington is responsible for a part of Greater London, including Kensington, Hounslow, Hampton, Hammersmith and Fulham, plus the Spelthorne district in Surrey. In February 1903, the first bishop received care of the rural deaneries of Westminster, Hampton, and Uxbridge from assistant bishop Alfred Barry, who had in turn taken over responsibility for "West London" from the Bishop of Marlborough in 1900. In 1906, Ridgeway moved to a house on Cornwall Gardens, South Kensington. In the experimental area scheme A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations. In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdiction ... of 1970, the bishop was given oversight of the dean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Roberts (bishop)
Edward James Keymer Roberts (18 April 1908 – 29 July 2001) was an Anglican bishop who held three separate episcopal appointments between 1956 and 1977. Roberts was educated at Marlborough and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and ordained priest in 1932. After a curacy at All Saints Church, Margaret Street in central London and four years as Vice Principal of Cuddesdon, he was to spend a long period in the Diocese of Portsmouth as successively examining chaplain to the bishop, vicar of St Matthew's Southsea, Archdeacon of the Isle of Wight (1948–52) and Archdeacon of Portsmouth before being ordained to the episcopate in 1956. After six years in Wiltshire, he was translated to be the Bishop of Kensington The Bishop of Kensington is an episcopal title used by an area bishop of the Church of England Diocese of London, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The Bishop of Kensington is responsible for a part of Greater London, including Kensingt ... in 1962 and aga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Of Guildford
The Bishop of Guildford is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Guildford in the Province of Canterbury. The title had first appeared as a suffragan See in the Diocese of Winchester in 1874. The Bishop suffragan of Guildford assisted the Bishop of Winchester in overseeing that diocese. Under George V, the Diocese of Guildford was created out of the north-eastern part of the Diocese of Winchester in 1927. The diocese covers the western half of the County of Surrey. The see is in the town of Guildford where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of the Holy Spirit which was built as a cathedral 1936 to 1965. The bishop's residence is Willow Grange, Jacobs Well — to the north of Guildford. The incumbent bishop is Andrew Watson, 10th Bishop of Guildford, since the confirmation of his election on 24 November 2014. List of bishops Assistant bishops Among those who have served as assistant bishops of the diocese have been: *19301955 (d.): Cyril Golding-B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Translation (ecclesiastical)
Translation is the transfer of a bishop from one episcopal see to another. The word is from the Latin ', meaning "carry across" (another religious meaning of the term is the translation of relics). This can be *From suffragan bishop status to diocesan bishop *From coadjutor bishop to diocesan bishop *From one country's episcopate to another *From diocesan bishop to archbishop In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In most cases, such as the Catholic Church, there are many archbishops who either have jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical province in addition to their own archdi ... References Anglicanism Episcopacy in the Catholic Church Christian terminology {{christianity-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Ramsay
Ronald Erskine Ramsay was the first Suffragan Bishop of Malmesbury, with the additional title of Archdeacon of Swindon, from 1927 until 1946. He was born on 4 November 1882 and educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Ordained in 1909 his first post was a curacy in Lozells. Later Warden of the Clifton College Mission, he served during the First World War as a chaplain to the Forces. He had been interviewed in May 1916, and his experience of extempore preaching at open-air meetings made him a suitable candidate for the Chaplaincy. He served for one year in France with the Glosters including when they were active during the Battle of the Somme Following this he was Clerical Secretary to the ''Bristol Board of Finance'' until his ordination to the episcopate A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
