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    Bishop of Gloucester is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Gloucester in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers the County of Gloucestershire...
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    Gloucester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity and formerly St Peter's Abbey, in Gloucester, England...
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    Christianity portal The Bishop of Worcester is the head of the Church of England Diocese of Worcester in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title...
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    Gloucester (/ˈɡlɒstər/ GLOS-tər) is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River...
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    Gloucestershire. The cathedral is Gloucester Cathedral and the bishop is the Bishop of Gloucester. It is part of the Province of Canterbury. The diocese was...
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    Rachel Treweek (category Bishops of Gloucester)
    bishop who sits in the House of Lords as a Lord Spiritual. Since June 2015, she has served as Bishop of Gloucester, the first female diocesan bishop in...
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    churchman, Anglican Bishop of Gloucester, later of Worcester and Gloucester, a Protestant reformer and a Protestant martyr. A proponent of the English Reformation...
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  • the suffragan Bishop of Lewes from 1977 to 1992 and the diocesan Bishop of Gloucester from 1992 to 1993, when he resigned after being cautioned for sexual...
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    Suffragan Bishops Act 1534 (26 Hen. 8. c. 14) is an Act of the Parliament of England that authorised the appointment of suffragan (i.e., assistant) bishops in...
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  • English churchman, bishop of Gloucester from 1672. He was the son of Walter Pritchett of Cowley Hall. He studied at the University of Oxford from 1622,...
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    Robert FitzRoy, 1st Earl of Gloucester (c. 1090 – 31 October 1147) (alias Robert Rufus, Robert de Caen (Latinised to Robertus de Cadomo), Robert Consul)...
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    Edward Fowler (1632 – 26 August 1714) was an English churchman, Bishop of Gloucester from 1691 until his death. He was born at Westerleigh, Gloucestershire...
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    seat of the Bishop of Gloucester. s:Page:Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae Vol.1 body of work.djvu/485 s:Page:Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae Vol.1 body of work.djvu/486...
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    Charles Ellicott (category Bishops of Gloucester and Bristol)
    academic and churchman. He briefly served as Dean of Exeter, then Bishop of the united see of Gloucester and Bristol. Ellicott was born in Whitwell, Rutland...
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  • March 2020) was an English bishop. He was first the Bishop of Lynn and, subsequently, the Bishop of Gloucester in the Church of England. Bentley was educated...
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    critic and churchman, Bishop of Gloucester from 1759 until his death. He edited editions of the works of his friend Alexander Pope, and of William Shakespeare...
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  • portal The Bishop of Tewkesbury is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Gloucester, in the Province of Canterbury...
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    Anglican bishop in the Church of England. He was a bishop for 22 years, serving as the Bishop of Whitby from 1972 to 1975, the Bishop of Gloucester from 1975...
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  • April 2017) was a British Anglican bishop. From 2004 to 2014, he served as the Bishop of Gloucester in the Church of England. Perham was born on 8 November...
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    have served as assistant bishops in the diocese were: 1897–?: Samuel Marsden, Assistant Bishop of Gloucester and former Bishop of Bathurst "Very Revd Vivienne...
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  • of Gloucester or Richard FitzRobert was appointed bishop of Bayeux in France in 1138 and died in 1142. He was the eldest son of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester...
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    Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015 (category Women bishops)
    "Rachel Treweek begins role as Bishop of Gloucester". BBC News. 19 September 2015. Retrieved 5 November 2016. "Bishop of Gloucester". UK Parliament. Retrieved...
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    bibliophile. After attaining the degree of DD, or doctor of divinity, he progressed to become Bishop of Gloucester (1612-1624). Although he may have been...
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    contributors to the dictionary include Harold Browne, bishop of Ely; Charles J. Ellicott, bishop of Gloucester and Bristol; and the Cambridge scholars J. B. Lightfoot...
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    milk of Old Gloucester cattle. By 1972, just sixty-eight heifers of the Old Gloucester breed were left in the world. Charles Martell bought up many of the...
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    progressive sentiments of which had stirred up controversy in the Church of England. In December 1861 he became Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, and within...
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    The first woman to be appointed diocesan bishop was the Right Reverend Rachel Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester, appointed on 26 March 2015. Treweek had been...
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  • Joseph Wilcocks, the incumbent Bishop of Gloucester, sold the fief to Susanne le Pelley without ever claiming the title of Seigneur. Clarke, Louisa Lane...
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    to become a diocesan bishop in the Church of England when she became the Bishop of Gloucester. She and Sarah Mullally, Bishop of Crediton, were the first...
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    Bath, the Bishop of Gloucester gave a sermon and uttered the line "It was then that Ezekiel saw the wheel...". At the mention of the word "wheel" several...
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