Kenneth Lawrence Barham (called Ken; born 1936) is a retired

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bishop. Barham was born in 1936, a son of

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(second

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, 1964–1966) and Julia née Leakey. He married Jill, a teacher. Like his father, Barham became an Anglican priest and later bishop: he trained at Clifton Theological College, gaining his

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(BD) in 1963. Ordained a deacon at Michaelmas (29 September) 1963 and a priest at Michaelmas (20 September) 1964 (both times by Roger Wilson, Bishop of Chichester in Chichester Cathedral), he served curacies in Worthing, Sevenoaks and

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. His first incumbency was as vicar of Maidstone, from 1970 until 1979, when he became the South Area Secretary for the CMS

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mission, until 1984. He returned to parochial ministry as

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until 2001. During this time, however, he also held posts in the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda. Among those colonial mission posts, Barham was consecrated in 1993 as Assistant Bishop of Cyangugu, becoming diocesan Bishop of Cyangugu in 1996 until his 2001 retirement. In 2001, he was made an

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(OBE) and retired to

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; where he has served the Diocese of Chichester as an honorary assistant bishop since 2005. In 2004 the then

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, Rowan Williams, awarded Barham the Cross of St Augustine in recognition of his work for the Anglican Communion.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Barham, Kenneth Lawrence 1936 births 20th-century Anglican bishops in Africa Living people Officers of the Order of the British Empire Place of birth missing (living people) Recipients of the Cross of St Augustine People from Ashburnham, East Sussex Anglican bishops of Cyangugu