Frank Jackson Okell (3 February 1887 – 7 October 1950.) was the inaugural

Bishop of Stockport The Bishop of Stockport is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Chester, in the Province of York, England. The title takes its name after the town of Stockport in Greater Manchester Greater Man ...

whose 11-month tenure from November 1949, until October 1950, was one of the shortest in the

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Communion. He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Oxford. Ordained in 1914 he was a

curate A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish. In this sense, "curate" means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy w ...

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before wartime service as a temporary

chaplain A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a Minister (Christianity), minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a laity, lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secularity, secular institution (such as a hosp ...

. Following the Armistice he was a ''Minor Canon'' at Sheffield Cathedral then

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of Bangor Monachorum. A sideways move to Eccleston, Cheshire led to promotion to be Rural Dean of Malpas and finally, before his appointment to the episcopate,

Archdeacon of Macclesfield The Archdeacon of Macclesfield is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Chester. As such she or he is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy within its six rural deaneries: Bowdon, Congleton, Knutsford, Maccles ...

. He was ordained and consecrated a bishop on All Saints' Day (1 November) at York Minster.

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1887 births People educated at Rugby School Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford Bishops of Stockport Archdeacons of Macclesfield 1950 deaths World War I chaplains Royal Army Chaplains' Department officers 20th-century Church of England bishops {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub