Roderic Norman Coote

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(13 April 19156 July 2000) was an Anglican

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who held three different posts in an ecclesiastical career spanning half a century. Coote was the son of Commander Bernard Trotter Coote and Grace Harriet Robinson, daughter of the Very Reverend John Joseph Robinson. He was the grandson of

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(see

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).thepeerage.com Rt. Rev. Roderic Norman Coote
/ref> Educated at

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

and

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in 1939, he began his career with a

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at ''St Bartholomew's, Dublin''. After a decade as a

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he became diocesan bishop ( Bishop of Gambia and the Rio Pongas) in 1951.

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in 1957, his final appointment was a sideways move to

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nine years later. He became an area bishop with the creation of the Chelmsford area scheme 1983. An accomplished musician,Telegraph obituary
/ref> he died just six months short of his 50th Episcopal anniversary. Coote married Erica Lynette Shrubbs, daughter of Reverend Eric Gordon Shrubbs, in 1964. They had one son and two daughters. He died in July 2000, aged 85.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Coote, Roderic Norman 1915 births Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Anglican bishops of Gambia and the Rio Pongas Bishops of Fulham Bishops of Colchester Officers of the Order of the British Empire 2000 deaths Roderic Anglicanism in the Gambia