Simon Burrows
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Script error: No such module "Portal". Simon Hedley Burrows (8 November 1928 – 5 August 2015) was the Bishop of Buckingham from 1974 to 1994 and the first area bishop under the diocesan area scheme of 1984.[1]
Early life
Burrows was born on 8 November 1928. He was the grandson of Leonard Burrows (Bishop of Sheffield) and Neville Lovett (Bishop of Salisbury)[2] and son of Hedley Burrows (Dean of Hereford).[3] He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge.
Ordained ministry
He was made a deacon at Michaelmas 1954 (26 September), by Cyril Easthaugh, Bishop of Kensington,[4] and ordained a priest the Michaelmas following (25 September 1955), by William Wand, Bishop of London — both times at St Paul's Cathedral.[5] He served his curacy at St John's Wood, after which he was Chaplain of Jesus College, Cambridge.[6] Following this he was Vicar of Wyken and then (his final appointment before his ordination to the episcopate)[7] of Holy Trinity Fareham.[8] He was consecrated a bishop on 18 October 1974 by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.[9]
In retirement he continued to serve as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Winchester for some time.
Death
He died on 5 August 2015 due to illness.[10]
References
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- ↑ Who's Who 1992 “(London, A & C Black Template:ISBN)
- ↑ ‘BURROWS, Very Rev. Hedley Robert’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007 [1], accessed 30 June 2012
- ↑ ‘BURROWS, Rt Rev. Simon Hedley’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011 [2], accessed 30 June 2012
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- ↑ “Crockford's clerical directory, 1995” (Lambeth,Church House Template:ISBN)
- ↑ ”Debrett's People of Today 1992” (London, Debrett's) Template:ISBN)
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- ↑ BURROWS
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