Jeremy Walsh

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Jeremy Walsh
Bishop of Tewkesbury
Diocese Diocese of Gloucester
In officeJan 1986–Oct 1995
Predecessor Robert Deakin
Successor John Went
Orders
Consecration29 January 1986
by  Robert Runcie
Personal details
Born1929 (age 9394)
Denomination Anglican
SpouseCynthia Knight
Alma mater Pembroke College, Cambridge

Geoffrey David Jeremy Walsh (known as Jeremy; born 1929) was the fifth Anglican Bishop of Tewkesbury (the suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Gloucester) from January 1986 until his retirement in October 1995.

Educated at Felsted School and Pembroke College, Cambridge [1] Walsh studied for ordination at Lincoln Theological College before embarking on curacies in Southgate, London [2] and Cambridge. [3] From 1958 until 1961 [4] he was Staff Secretary of the SCM and from then until 1966 Vicar of St Mary Moorfields, Bristol. [5] There then followed two Rectorships of ten years apiece at, firstly, Marlborough and latterly Ipswich. Appointment to the suffragan bishopric of Tewkesbury in 1986 [6] completed his ecclesiastical career and he retired (to Ipswich) in 1995. He was ordained and consecrated a bishop (thereby taking up his suffragan See) on 29 January 1986, by Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Gloucester Cathedral. [7]

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References

  1. Who's Who 1992 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN   0-7136-3514-2
  2. "Debrett's People of Today": Ed Ellis,P (1992, London, Debtrett's) p 1621 ISBN   1-870520-09-2)
  3. Crockfords,(London, Church House 1995) ISBN   0-7151-8088-6
  4. During which time he married Cynthia Knight “Who’s Who” (Ibid)
  5. The Times, Tuesday, Aug 22, 1961; pg. 9; Issue 55166; col F Letter concerning Savings In Prison JEREMY WALSH
  6. The Times, Wednesday, Nov 13, 1985; pg. 20; Issue 62294; col D New Bishop of Tewkesbury
  7. "New bishops consecrated" . Church Times . No. 6416. 31 January 1986. p. 20. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 7 April 2017 via UK Press Online archives.