Stuart Hetley Price (14 June 1922 – 15 March 1977) was the inaugural

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who was later

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. Educated at

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Corpus Christi College (full name: "The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary", often shortened to "Corpus"), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. From the late 14th century through to the early 19th centur ...

he was

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in 1945. His first post was as

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at ''St Michael and All Angels'',

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, after which he was

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to the

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. He was then successively

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to the SCM;

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; a

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and, his final post before elevation to the episcopate,

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. He died, following complications brought on by a stroke, in March 1977. His son

Simon Price Simon Price (born 25 September 1967) is a British music journalist and author. He is known for his weekly review section in '' The Independent on Sunday'' and his book ''Everything (A Book About Manic Street Preachers)''. Career Writer Pr ...

(1954–2011) became a historian of ancient Roman religion.

References

1922 births 1977 deaths Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Bishops of Doncaster Bishops of Ripon (modern diocese) Archdeacons of Manchester 20th-century Church of England bishops {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub