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Frederick Stephen "Freddy" Temple (24 November 1916 – 26 November 2000) was the Suffragan Bishop of Malmesbury in the
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from 1973 until 1983. Temple was the grandson of
Frederick Temple Frederick Temple (30 November 1821 – 23 December 1902) was an English academic, teacher and Clergy, churchman, who served as Bishop of Exeter (1869–1885), Bishop of London (1885–1896) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1896–1902). Early ...
and the nephew of William Temple, both
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. He was educated at
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and
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. He was
ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are Consecration in Christianity, consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the religious denomination, denominationa ...
in 1948 and was a
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in Newark and later Rector of St Agnes'
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and
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of
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. He returned to
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to be senior chaplain to
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, then
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. He was then
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of St Mary’s
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, the largest parish in the city, and then
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of
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until his ordination to the
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. He retired in 1983''
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'', 20 April 1983, p. 16., "'Bishop of Malmesbury to resign"
and died on 26 November 2000.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Temple, Frederick Stephen 1916 births People educated at Rugby School Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Deans of Hong Kong Archdeacons of Malmesbury 20th-century Church of England bishops Bishops of Swindon (previously Malmesbury) 2000 deaths