• William Gordon (24 September 1831 – 7 June 1911) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the second Bishop of Leeds. William Gordon...
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  • The Bishop of Leeds is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds in the Province of Liverpool, England. The Vicariate Apostolic of the Yorkshire...
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  • William Gordon Wheeler (5 May 1910 - 21 February 1998) was an English prelate and the bishop emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds. Wheeler had...
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  • Roman Catholic Church William Gordon (bishop of Leeds) (1831–1911), English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church William Gordon (physician) (1801–1849)...
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    diocese. Robert Cornthwaite: Translated Bishop of Leeds, 20 December 1878 – died 16 June 1890. William Gordon: 16 June 1890 – died 7 June 1911. Joseph...
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    William Cosmo Gordon Lang, 1st Baron Lang of Lambeth, GCVO, GCStJ, PC (31 October 1864 – 5 December 1945) was a Scottish Anglican prelate who served as...
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  • apprentice with Leeds United, but never played for the first team, and after leaving Darlington he played non-league football for Bishop Auckland. As a...
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  • Archbishop of Westminster, and the principal co-consecrators were William Gordon, Bishop of Leeds, and John Bilsborrow, Bishop of Salford. On the death of Edmund...
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  • Joseph Cowgill (category Roman Catholic bishops of Leeds)
    the third Bishop of Leeds, when he succeeded William Gordon who died in office on 7 June 1911. Joseph Cowgill was known as Children's Bishop, and he celebrated...
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  • was founded in 1552 by William Sheafield to provide free, subsidised or fee-paying education to the children of the City of Leeds. Despite 1552 being the...
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    Arthur Roche (category Roman Catholic bishops of Leeds)
    England, he was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop William Wheeler for the Catholic Diocese of Leeds on 19 July 1975. Roche's first appointment in the...
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  • University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In...
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    Walsham How (redirect from Bishop How)
    William Walsham How (13 December 1823 – 10 August 1897) was an English Anglican bishop. Known as Walsham How, he was the son of a Shrewsbury solicitor;...
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  • 1370–1414), bishop Reginald Mitchell-Innes (1848–1930), priest Robert Innes (born 1959), bishop Robert T. A. Innes (1861–1933), astronomer William T. Innes...
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  • 1902: William Maclagan 1911: Cosmo Gordon Lang 1937: William Temple 1953: Cyril Garbett 2023: Stephen Cottrell 1685: Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and...
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  • (1923–2006), British politician Gordon Marsden (born 1953), British politician Henry Rowland Marsden (1823–1876), mayor of Leeds and philanthropist Lorna Marsden...
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    archbishop of York is a senior bishop in the Church of England, second only to the archbishop of Canterbury. The archbishop is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese...
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    mourner was William Gordon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Leeds, who was accompanied by more than fifty priests. In the sermon by Dr Bray of St Joseph's Seminary...
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    The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion...
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    the Rev. John Gott, Vicar of Leeds and later Bishop of Truro, with the first principal being E C S Gibson, Lecturer at Leeds Parish Church. The school...
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    passing down to solicitor William Middleton who established the family law firm in Leeds which spanned five generations. Some members of the firm inherited woollen...
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    St Stephen's House (category Permanent private halls of the University of Oxford)
    Warner – Bishop of Chichester William Gordon Wheeler – former Roman Catholic Bishop of Leeds Colin Williams – General Secretary of the Conference of European...
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    Sir William Hamo Thornycroft RA (9 March 1850 – 18 December 1925) was an English sculptor, responsible for some of London's best-known statues, including...
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    St Cuthbert's Church, Darlington (category Church of England church buildings in County Durham)
    British Newspaper Archive. "Canon G.E. Holderness to be Bishop of Burnley". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. England. 13 December 1954. Retrieved 30...
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    and former Bishop suffragan of Maidstone lives in Harrietsham, Kent (in Canterbury diocese, where he is also licensed.) 2010–present: Gordon Bates, retired...
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  • Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop William Gordon of Leeds and Bishop John Bilsborrow of Salford. Whiteside...
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    titular see of Ioppe 1469: Thomas Scrope, absentee Bishop of Dromore and assistant Bishop of Norwich (1450–1477) 1480: William Westkarre, Prior of Mottisfont...
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    1890) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was last Bishop of Beverley and the first Bishop of Leeds. Robert Cornthwaite was born in...
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    Major-General Charles George Gordon CB (28 January 1833 – 26 January 1885), also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British...
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    appointed Bishop of Portsmouth in 1965 William Gordon Wheeler, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Middlesbrough in 1964, later Bishop, of Leeds in 1966 Mark...
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