Peter Nott

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Peter John Nott (30 December 1933 – 20 August 2018) was an English Anglican bishop:[1] from 1985 to 1999, he served as Bishop of Norwich.[2]

Nott was educated at Bristol Grammar School, Dulwich College and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.[3] He began his ordained ministry as a curate at Harpenden after which he was chaplain at Fitzwilliam College and then Rector of Beaconsfield.[4] In 1977 he was appointed the suffragan Bishop of Taunton;[5] he was ordained a bishop on 18 October 1977, by Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral.[6] He was translated to be the Bishop of Norwich[7] upon the confirmation of his election on 12 November 1985.[8] He retired in 1999 but continued to serve as an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford.

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  1. Eastern Daily Press
  2. "Well liked Bishop of Norwich who published a lively account of a Visitation of his Norfolk diocese" Daily Telegraph p29 (obituaries) Issue no 50,788, dated Wednesday 22 August 2018
  3. Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black Template:ISBN
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing Template:ISBN
  5. "New Bishop of Taunton", The Times, 1 June 1977, p19.
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  7. The Times, 21 August 1985, p14, "Rural churchman is new bishop"
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