Dick Bird

Last updated

Colin Richard Bateman Bird was an Anglican priest in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

He was born on 31 March 1933, educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1958. [1] His first posts were curacies at St Mark's Cathedral, George and St Saviour's Claremont, Cape Town since 1996. [2] He then held incumbencies in Pretoria and Tzaneen. On his return to England he was Curate at Limpsfield then Vicar of St Catherine, Hatcham. In 1988 he became Archdeacon of Lambeth, a post he held for 11 years. [3] He died on 2 June 2010. [4]

Notes

  1. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN   0-19-200008-X
  2. Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN   978-0-7136-8555-8
  3. Church Times
  4. The Daily Telegraph "Archdeacon of Lambeth who devoted himself to inter-racial reconciliation after seeing apartheid in South Africa" p 25 Issue no 48, 262 dated 2 August 2010
Church of England titles
Preceded by Archdeacon of Lambeth
1988–1999
Succeeded by

Related Research Articles

Christopher Russell Campling was a British Anglican priest who was the Dean of Ripon.

Eric Nash Devenport was Bishop of Dunwich from 1980 to 1992.

Samir Hanna Kaffity was a Palestinian Anglican bishop.

Arthur Stanley Goldsworthy was an Australian Anglican bishop. He was the sixth Bishop of Bunbury in the Anglican Church of Australia from 1977 to 1983.

Robert Garshong Allotey Okine is a former Ghanaian Anglican bishop. He was Bishop of Koforidua and Archbishop of West Africa.

Donald Norman Shearman was an Australian Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Rockhampton from 1963 to 1971 and Bishop of Grafton from 1973 to 1985. In 2004, a church tribunal found Shearman guilty of misconduct for sexually abusing a schoolgirl while serving as a boarding master at an Anglican hostel in Forbes, New South Wales, in the 1950s. On 25 August 2004, Shearman became the first member of the clergy in the Anglican Church of Australia to be removed from holy orders as a result of that finding.

John Stewart Davies was Bishop of St Asaph from 1999 until 2008.

David Leaning was an eminent Anglican priest.

John Guille is a Church of England priest. He was Dean of Southwell from 2007 until 2014.

Francis William Harvey was an Anglican priest of the second half of the 20th century.

Richard Montague Stephens Eyre was an Anglican priest. He was the Dean of Exeter from 1981 to 1995.

Gary Frederick Woolsey was an Anglican bishop in Canada whose ministry focused on serving the spiritual needs of First Nation people in central Canada.

Dewi Morris Bridges was a Welsh Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon from 1988 until 1998.

Anthony Edward Pierce, was the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon in the Church in Wales from 1999 to 2008.

Kenneth Mervyn Lancelot Hadfield Banting was an Anglican priest, who was an Archdeacon of the Isle of Wight.

David Goldie was a priest in the Church of England.

Lyle Dennen is an Anglican priest, most notably a former Archdeacon of Hackney: a post he held from 1999 to 2010.

Roger Ernest Dion Sharpley was an English Anglican priest who was the third Archdeacon of Hackney, a post he held from 1981 to 1992, during which time he was also Vicar of St Andrew, Holborn.

Brian Smith is a retired Anglican priest. He was the Archdeacon of Man in the Church of England from 2005 to 2011.

Robert John Darrell Newhouse was an Anglican priest. He was the Archdeacon of Totnes from 1966 to 1976.