Conrad John Eustace Meyer (2 July 1922"Debrett People of Today", 10 July 2001 – 23 July 2011) was an English

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priest and a former

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. Meyer was the son of William Eustace Meyer. He was educated at

Clifton College ''The spirit nourishes within'' , established = 160 years ago , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent boarding and day school , religion = Christian , president = , head_label = Head of College , hea ...

and Pembroke College, Cambridge. During the

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he served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He was made

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in Advent 1948 (19 December) and ordained

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the following Advent (18 December 1949) — both times by

Frederick Cockin Frederic Arthur Cockin was an Anglican Bishop of Bristol in the mid 20th century. Born on 30 July 1888, he was educated at Marlborough College and University College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1915, after which he was Curate of St Mary, Newin ...

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, at

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. His first ordained ministry positions were

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at Ashton Gate and

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. He was

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Devoran Devoran ( kw, Deveryon) is a village in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is southwest of Truro at .Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 ''Truro & Falmouth'' Formerly an ecclesiastical parish, Devoran is now in the civil par ...

from 1954 to 1964. From 1969 to 1979 he was

Archdeacon of Bodmin The Archdeacon of Bodmin is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of Truro. The role was established by Order in Council on 21 May 1878, two years after the diocese itself was created, by splitting the Archdeaconry of Cor ...

. On 25 January 1979, he was consecrated a bishop by

Donald Coggan Frederick Donald Coggan, Baron Coggan, (9 October 1909 – 17 May 2000) was the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury from 1974 to 1980.

, Archbishop of Canterbury, at

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; to serve as Bishop suffragan of Dorchester, a position that he held until 1987; he became the first

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in 1984 when the diocese's

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was erected. From 1990 to 1994 he was an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Truro. In February 1994, Meyer announced his decision to be received into full communion with the Catholic Church; in September 1994, Meyer became a Roman Catholic and in June 1995 he was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest by Christopher Budd, Roman Catholic Bishop of Plymouth, at

Buckfast Abbey Buckfast Abbey forms part of an active Benedictine monastery at Buckfast, near Buckfastleigh, Devon, England. Buckfast first became home to an abbey in 1018. The first Benedictine abbey was followed by a Savignac (later Cistercian) abbey cons ...

. In 2009 he was made a

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Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI ( la, Benedictus XVI; it, Benedetto XVI; german: link=no, Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, , on 16 April 1927) is a retired prelate of the Catholic church who served as the head of the Church and the soverei ...

."Pope Hands out Ancient Title to Retired Newquay Churchman", ''Cornish Guardian'', 18 March 2009.

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1922 births People educated at Clifton College Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II Archdeacons of Bodmin Anglican bishops of Dorchester 20th-century Church of England bishops Anglican bishop converts to Roman Catholicism Anglo-Catholic bishops English Roman Catholics 2011 deaths English Anglo-Catholics {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub