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{{Short description|British bishop}}
{{BLP sources|date=May 2022}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Reverend]]
| name = Barry Rogerson
| honorific-suffix =
| image = Bishop Barry Rogerson (cropped).jpg
| image_size = 150
| caption = Rogerson in 1994
| title = [[Bishop of Bristol]]
| church = [[Church of England]]
| diocese = [[Diocese of Bristol]]
| enthroned = 1985
| term_end = 2002 (retirement)
| predecessor = [[John Tinsley]]
| successor = [[Mike Hill (bishop)|Mike Hill]]
| other_post = Honorary [[assistant bishop]] in the [[Diocese of Bath and Wells]]<br />2002–present<br />[[Bishop of Wolverhampton]]<br />1979–1985

| ordination = 1962 (deacon); 1963 (priest)
| consecration = 1979

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1936|7|25|df=y}}
| nationality = [[British people|British]]
| religion = [[Anglicanism|Anglican]]
| occupation = Bishop
| alma_mater = [[University of Leeds]]
}}
'''Barry Rogerson''' (born 25 July 1936) was the first [[Bishop of Wolverhampton]] from 1979 to 1985 and, from then until his retirement in 2002, the [[Bishop of Bristol]]. He holds Honorary degrees from Bristol & the West of England Universities. He was made a Freeman of the City and County of Bristol in 2003.

==Career==

Rogerson was educated at the [[University of Leeds]]<ref>[[Who's Who]]2008: London, [[A & C Black]] {{ISBN|978-0-7136-8555-8}}</ref> and [[Wells Theological College]]. Initially a bank employee, he was [[ordained]] in 1962, after which he held [[Curate|curacies]] at St Hilda's [[South Shields]] and St Nicholas’ [[Bishopwearmouth]].<ref>[[Crockford's Clerical Directory]]2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing, {{ISBN|978-0-7151-1030-0}}</ref> From 1967 to 1975 he was a [[lecturer]] at [[Lichfield Theological College]] and then [[Sarum College|Salisbury and Wells Theological College]], after which he became Vicar and subsequently Team Rector of [[St Thomas' Church, Wednesfield]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/listed/StThomas.htm |title=Church website |access-date=2008-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830121716/http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/listed/StThomas.htm |archive-date=2009-08-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref>—a post he held until his ordination to the [[episcopate]].

In 1978 he was seconded for six months to the [[Anglican Church of Melanesia]] to teach at the [[Bishop Patteson Theological College]] at [[Kohimarama, Guadalcanal|Kohimarama]] in the [[Solomon Islands]]. He served as Chairman of the Melanesian Mission in England until his retirement in 2002.

Rogerson was elected as a Suffragan Bishop to the [[General Synod of the Church of England]] and House of Bishops in 1982. During his membership of the General Synod he was chairman of the Interfaith Consultancy Group (IFCOG) and continued to be a member of the advisory board of Ministry, ultimately becoming its chairman. During his latter years on the Board he was instrumental in encouraging the Church of England to take the [[Distinctive Diaconate]] seriously, introducing the report ''For Such A Time as This'' to the General Synod in 2001.{{clarify|reason=what is the Distinctive Diaconate?|date=May 2022}}

===Ecumenism===
Starting as Chairman of Churches Together in Wolverhampton, Rogerson became a member of the [[World Council of Churches]]' Faith and Order Commission in 1987, and in 1991 a member of its Central Committee, a role which he held until his retirement. In 1997 he became a member of ''Churches Together in Britain and Ireland'' (CTBI) subsequently becoming one of its president. His final contribution was to co-chair with the Reverend. Dr. John B. Taylor the committee which produced the Report ''The Anglican-Methodist Conversations'' in 2001.

===Ordination of Women===
[[File:Bishop Barry Rogerson.jpg|thumb|left|Rogerson with the first women who were ordained priests in 1994]]
Rogerson has been a supporter of the ordination of women to the priesthood since his days as a student at Leeds University. Alongside [[John Oliver (bishop)|John Oliver]], then Bishop of Hereford, he was a consultant to ''The Movement for the Ordination of Women''. He ordained the first 32 female priests in the Church of England on 12 March 1994 at his cathedral in Bristol.

In retirement he continues to serve as an honorary [[assistant bishop]] in the [[Diocese of Bath and Wells]] as well as being a governor of the [[University of the West of England]].<ref>[http://www.uwe.ac.uk/finance/fserv/accounts/y2004/govs.htm UWE web site]</ref>

==Publications==
* "Growing Together - Anglican Identity and European Ecumenism", in ''2020 Visions'', SPCK, 1992
* "Turn to God - Rejoice in Hope Taking Responsibility for Ourselves", in ''The Ecumenical Review'', WCC, 1998
* "The diaconate: Taking the Ecumenical Opportunity", in ''Community-Unity-Communion'', Church House Publishing, 1998
* "Financing the Ministry and Mission of the Church of England", in ''Evangelische Theologie'', 1–2000
* "A Translation of the Church of Norway's Ordination Rites", in ''Studia Liturgica'' Vol:31(2) 2001

==References==
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