John Bickersteth
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John Monier Bickersteth Template:Postnom[1] (6 September 1921 – 29 January 2018) was an English Anglican clergyman who served as the Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1975 to 1986, and Clerk of the Closet from 1979 to 1989.
Bickersteth descended from a clerical family over several generations; in total six family members have been Church of England Bishops.[2] His father was the Rev. Canon Edward Monier Bickersteth Template:Post-nominals, and his mother, Inez Katharine Jelf Bickersteth,[3] was a friend of the actress Sybil Thorndike.[2] His uncle was Julian Bickersteth and his great-great-grandfather was Charles James Blomfield.
Educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford, he trained for ordination at Wells Theological College and was ordained deacon in 1950 and priest in 1951.[4] He began his career with a curacy at St Matthew Moorfields Bristol (1950-54).[5] He was then Incumbent of St John the Evangelist, Hurst Green, Oxted (1954-62).[6] After a spell as Vicar of St Stephen's Church, Chatham he ascended to the Episcopate in 1970 as Suffragan Bishop of Warrington, and after five years was further promoted to Bath. From 1979 he was Clerk of the Closet for a decade.
Bickersteth died in January 2018 at the age of 96.[7]
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References
- ↑ Debrett's People of Today: Ed Ellis,P (1992, London, Debtrett's) p 1621 Template:ISBN
- ↑ a b Run O' The Mill Bishop by John Bickersteth (Capella Archive) Template:Webarchive Biografische Angaben (Tablet Archive vom 17. September 2005)
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- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th Edition, p 80.
- ↑ Who's Who 1992 London, A & C Black, 1991 Template:ISBN
- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th Edition, p 80.
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