Geoffrey David Jeremy Walsh (known as Jeremy; born 1929) was the fifth
Anglican Bishop of Tewkesbury
The Bishop of Tewkesbury is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Gloucester, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after the town of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, but th ...
(the suffragan 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 Gloucester. It is part of the Provinc ...
) from January 1986 until his retirement in October 1995.
Educated at
Felsted School
(Keep your Faith)
, established =
, closed =
, type = Public school Independent day and boarding
, religion = Church of England
, president =
, head_label = Headmaster
, head = Chris Townsend
, r_head_ ...
and
Pembroke College, Cambridge Walsh studied for ordination at ''Lincoln Theological College'' before embarking on
curacies in
Southgate, London
Southgate is a suburban area of North London, England in the London Borough of Enfield. It is located around north of Charing Cross. The name is derived from being the south gate to Enfield Chase.
History
Southgate was originally the ''South ...
and
Cambridge
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. From 1958 until 1961 he was Staff Secretary of the
SCM and from then until 1966
Vicar
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of St Mary Moorfields, Bristol. There then followed two
Rector
Rector (Latin for the member of a vessel's crew who steers) may refer to:
Style or title
*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
ships of ten years apiece at, firstly,
Marlborough and latterly
Ipswich
Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line r ...
. Appointment to the
suffragan bishopric of
Tewkesbury
Tewkesbury ( ) is a medieval market town and civil parish in the north of Gloucestershire, England. The town has significant history in the Wars of the Roses and grew since the building of Tewkesbury Abbey. It stands at the confluence of the Ri ...
in 1986 completed his