Patrick Burnet Harris (30 September 193426 December 2020) was a

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who served in two episcopal positions. He was educated at St Albans School and Keble College, Oxford. He trained for ordination at

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. He was

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deacon in 1960 and priest in 1961 and his first post was as a curate at St Ebbe's Church, Oxford after which he became a

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with the

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. He became the Archdeacon of

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in 1969 before being ordained to the

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four years later as Bishop of Northern Argentina. After seven years he returned to

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firstly as

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and Assistant Bishop of Wakefield (1981–1985); and then

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of the

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Crockford(London, Church House 1995) and Assistant Bishop of Oxford (1986–1988) where he remained until he was appointed Bishop of Southwell, a post he held until his 1999 retirement. In retirement he served as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Lincoln (1999–2005), in the

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(2005–2017) and in the

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(1999 until his death). He died on 26 December 2020, aged 86.

References

1934 births 2020 deaths People educated at St Albans School, Hertfordshire Alumni of Keble College, Oxford Anglican archdeacons in South America 20th-century Anglican bishops in South America Anglican bishops of Northern Argentina Bishops of Southwell 20th-century Church of England bishops {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub