Eric Wild (6 November 1914 – 10 August 1991) was

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from 1972 to 1982. Educated at

Manchester Grammar School The Manchester Grammar School (MGS) is a highly Selective school, selective Private_schools_in_the_United_Kingdom, private day school for boys aged 7-18 in Manchester, England, which was founded in 1515 by Hugh Oldham (then Bishop of Exeter). ...

and

Keble College, Oxford Keble College () is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its main buildings are on Parks Road, opposite the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, University Museum a ...

, he was

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in 1938. His first post was as a

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at ''St Anne, Stanley,

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''. After

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service with the

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his subsequent experience included incumbencies in

Wigan Wigan ( ) is a town in Greater Manchester, England. The town is midway between the two cities of Manchester, to the south-east, and Liverpool, to the south-west. It is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its ad ...

and

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followed by posts as Director of Religious Education for the Diocese of Peterborough and (his final post before appointment to the

episcopate A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of dioceses. The role ...

)

Archdeacon of Berkshire The Archdeacon of Berkshire (also rendered Archdeacon of Berks) is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of Oxford. The archdeacon is the head of the archdeaconry of Berkshire, a post historically found within the dioce ...

.Archdeacons of Berkshire

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1914 births People educated at Manchester Grammar School Alumni of Keble College, Oxford Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II 20th-century Church of England bishops Bishops of Reading Archdeacons of Berkshire 1991 deaths {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub