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Bishop Of Whitby
The Bishop of Whitby is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of York, in the Province of York, England. The title takes its name after the town of Whitby in North Yorkshire; the See was erected under the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888 by Order in Council dated 30 July 1923. The Bishop of Whitby oversees the Archdeaconry of Cleveland. On 3 July 2014 Paul Ferguson was consecrated as Bishop of Whitby.Diocese of York – New Bishops of Selby and Whitby (Accessed 2 May 2014) The Bishop of Whitby formerly had episcopal oversight of traditionalist parishes in the whole Diocese of York. Bates agreed not to ordain women and Ladds and Warner were both opponents of the |
Episcopal Polity
An episcopal polity is a hierarchical form of church governance ("ecclesiastical polity") in which the chief local authorities are called bishops. (The word "bishop" derives, via the British Latin and Vulgar Latin term ''*ebiscopus''/''*biscopus'', from the Ancient Greek ''epískopos'' meaning "overseer".) It is the structure used by many of the major Christian Churches and denominations, such as the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Church of the East, Anglican, Lutheran and Methodist churches or denominations, and other churches founded independently from these lineages. Churches with an episcopal polity are governed by bishops, practising their authorities in the dioceses and conferences or synods. Their leadership is both sacramental and constitutional; as well as performing ordinations, confirmations, and consecrations, the bishop supervises the clergy within a local jurisdiction and is the representative both to secular structures and wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Of Selby
The Bishop of Selby is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of York, in the Province of York, England. The title refers to the town of Selby in North Yorkshire; the See was erected under the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888 by Order in Council dated 20 December 1938. The Bishop of Selby has episcopal oversight of the Archdeaconry of York The Archdeacon of York (or of the West Riding) is a senior clergy position in an archdeaconry subdivision of the Church of England Diocese of York in the Province of York. It is named for the City of York and consists of the seven rural deaner .... On 3 July 2014, John Thomson was consecrated Bishop suffragan of Selby at York Minster.Diocese of York – New Bishops of Selby and Whitby (Access ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Warner (bishop)
Martin Clive Warner (born 24 December 1958) is an Anglican bishop in England. He is currently the Bishop of Chichester. Early life and education Warner was educated at King's School, Rochester, Maidstone Grammar School, and at St Chad's College, University of Durham 1977–80. He then trained for ordination at St Stephen's House, Oxford, later earning a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at the University of Durham. Ordained ministry *Assistant Curate at St Peter's, Plymouth (1984–1988) *Team Vicar of the Parish of the Resurrection, Leicester (1988–1993) *Administrator of the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham (1993–2002) *Priest in Charge of Hempton with Pudding Norton (1998–2000) *Honorary Canon of Norwich Cathedral (2000–?) *Associate Vicar at St Andrew, Holborn (2002–2003) Warner was a canon residentiary at St Paul's Cathedral, 2003–2009: the canon pastor from 2003 to 2008 and then canon treasurer until 2009. Episcopal ministry Warner was conse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Society Of The Holy Cross
The Society of the Holy Cross (SSC; la, Societas Sanctae Crucis) is an international Anglo-Catholic society of male priests with members in the Anglican Communion and the Continuing Anglican movement, who live under a common rule of life that informs their priestly ministry and charism. Founding and early history The society was founded on 28 February 1855 at the chapel of the House of Charity, Soho, London, by six priests: Charles Fuge Lowder, Charles Maurice Davies, David Nicols, Alfred Poole, Joseph Newton Smith and Henry Augustus Rawes. The society they formed was initially intended as a spiritual association for their personal edification, but it soon came to be among the driving forces behind the Anglo-Catholic movement, particularly after the first phase of the Oxford Movement had played its course and John Henry Newman had been received into the Roman Catholic Church. Lowder was the founder of the society and served as its first master. While visiting France in 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Ladds
Robert Sidney Ladds (born 15 November 1941) is an English Anglican bishop. From 1999 to 2008, he served as the Bishop of Whitby, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of York. Early life and education Ladds was born on 15 November 1941. After school, he worked as an industrial research chemist from 1959 to 1968. He then attended Christ Church College, Canterbury to train as a teacher.'LADDS, Rt Rev. Robert Sidney', Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 201 accessed 8 July 2012 He completed a Certificate in Education (CertEd) in 1970 and a Bachelor of Education (BEd Hons) degree in 1971: these qualifications were validated by the University of London. He was awarded the Licentiate of the Royal Society of Chemistry (LRSC) in 1972. He was a chemistry teacher at Borden Grammar School, an all-boys school in Sittingbourne, before being ordained. Ordained ministry Having trained on a part-time basis with the Canterbury School of Ministry, L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Bates
Gordon Bates (born 16 March 1934) was the eighth Bishop of Whitby. Ordained ministry Bates received his ecclesiastical education at Kelham Theological College, being ordained deacon in 1958 and priest in 1959. After a curacy at Eltham he served as an Assistant Youth Chaplain in the Diocese of Gloucester, and then as Youth Chaplain in the Liverpool Diocese. From 1965 he began a long association with Liverpool Cathedral, serving for four years as cathedral Chaplain. He served briefly as a parish priest at Huyton in Liverpool, before returning to the cathedral again as a Canon Residentiary and Precentor from 1973 to 1983. Whilst serving as cathedral Precentor, Bates was concurrently the Diocesan Director of Ordinands for Liverpool Diocese. From 1983 he was the Suffragan Bishop of Whitby, a post he held for 16 years. He retired to Carnforth and is now an honorary assistant bishop within the Carlisle diocese. Towards the end of his episcopate he stated: Views On 11 February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clifford Barker
Clifford Conder Barker (22 April 1926 – 31 May 2017) was an Anglican suffragan bishop in the last quarter of the 20th century. Born in 1926 he was educated at Oriel College, Oxford (he gained an Oxford Master of Arts) and St Chad's College, Durham. After World War II service with the Green Howards he was ordained priest in 1953. Following a curacy in Scarborough he rose steadily in the Church hierarchy being successively Vicar of ''Sculcoates'', Rural Dean of Stokesley and Prebendary of York before his ordination to the episcopate. After seven years as Bishop of Whitby he became the Bishop of Selby.''The Times'', Wednesday, 20 April 1983; p. 16; Issue 61511; col C "Translation of Rt Rev CC Barker" In retirement he served as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of York The Diocese of York is an administrative division of the Church of England, part of the Province of York. It covers the city of York, the eastern part of North Yorkshire, and most of the East Riding of Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Of Gloucester
The Bishop of Gloucester is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Gloucester in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers the County of Gloucestershire and part of the County of Worcestershire. The see's centre of governance is the City of Gloucester where the bishop's chair (''cathedra'') is located in the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Indivisible Trinity. The bishop's residence is Bishopscourt, Gloucester; very near the Cathedral. The office has been in existence since the foundation of the see in 1541 under King Henry VIII from part of the Diocese of Worcester. On 5 August 2014, Martyn Snow, the suffragan Bishop of Tewkesbury, became acting bishop of Gloucester.Diocese of Gloucester – Letter from the Bishop of Tewkesbury (Accessed 7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Yates (bishop)
John Yates (17 April 1925 – 26 February 2008) was an Anglican bishop in the Church of England. He was a bishop for 22 years, serving as the Bishop of Whitby from 1972 to 1975, the Bishop of Gloucester from 1975 to 1992 and the Bishop at Lambeth from 1992 to 1994. Early life Yates was born in Burslem, Staffordshire on 17 April 1925 (some sources say South London). He was educated first at Battersea Grammar School, then after his evacuation as a result of the outbreak of the Second World War he completed his schooling at Blackpool Grammar School. He undertook war service in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve becoming a bomb-aimer. Following the war, he went up to Jesus College, Cambridge as a Scholar, taking a first-class degree in theology (some reports say history). He held a Cambridge Master of Arts (MA Cantab). Ministry He then trained for ordination at Lincoln Theological College and was ordained deacon at St Paul's Cathedral, before embarking on his ecclesias ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Snow
George D'Oyly Snow (1903–1977) was a British schoolmaster and Anglican clergyman, who later served for a decade as the fifth Bishop of Whitby. Education and career Snow was educated at Winchester College and Oriel College, Oxford. Snow became an assistant master at Eton College (towards the end of which time he was ordained). Crockford's clerical directory, (London, Church House 1995) After Eton he became Chaplain of Charterhouse, and then Headmaster of Ardingly College (1947–1961). He was appointed Prebendary of Chichester Cathedral in 1959. ”Who was Who 1897–1990” London, A & C Black, 1991 In 1961, he was consecrated a bishop and appointed Bishop of Whitby, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of York. Snow was a prolific author: amongst others he wrote ''A Guide to Prayer'' (1932), ''A School Service Book'' (1936), ''Into His Presence'' (1946), ''The Public School in the New Age'' (1959), and ''Forth in His Name'' (1964). He continued in retirement to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Of Kimberley And Kuruman
The Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman is a diocese in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, and encompasses the area around Kimberley and Kuruman and overlaps the Northern Cape Province and North West Province of South Africa. It is presided over by the Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman, until recently Ossie Swartz. On 19 September 2021 the Electoral College of Bishops elected to translate the Right Revd Brian Marajh of George to become the 13th Bishop of Kimberley & Kuruman. The seat of the Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman is at St Cyprian's Cathedral, Kimberley. There had been so far 12 bishops of the See, though one of these served for two different periods of time. Formation of the diocese The Anglican presence on the Diamond Fields and in Kimberley's hinterland, from the early 1870s, was at first administered from Bloemfontein, initially under Allan Webb, the oldest parish here being St Mary's, Barkly West. By the early 1890s, however, there was a feeling in some quarte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Wheeldon
Philip William Wheeldon (1913–1992) was the fourth Bishop of Whitby and twice Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman. Life He was educated at Clifton College and then at Downing College, Cambridge, the college frequented by the family. He was ordained in 1938. He sat for a number of portraits which are now housed in the National Portrait Gallery, London. After a curacy at Farnham he was commissioned as Chaplain to the Forces, Fourth Class on 12 October 1939, and served throughout the Second World War. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 24 January 1946, for his service as Deputy Assistant Chaplain General to XII Corps from November 1944 (with the rank of Chaplain to the Forces, Second Class) in the Queen's Birthday Honours, and presented to him by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. When peace came he was successively chaplain to the Archbishop of York, General Secretary of the ''Central Advisory Council on Training for the Ministry'' and finally Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
