In office 1995–2001 Name Bill Down Successor unknown | Nationality British Consecration 1990 | |
Ordination 1959 (deacon); 1960 (priest) Books On Course Together: The Churches' Ministry in the Maritime World Today |
William John Denbigh "Bill" Down (born 15 July 1934) was the ninth Bishop of Bermuda and later the Assistant Bishop of Leicester.
Educated at St John's College, Cambridge (he proceeded Cambridge Master of Arts {MA(Cantab)}), Down was ordained in 1960. His first post was as a curate at St Paul's Church, Salisbury after which he was secretary to the Missions to Seaman and chaplain of St Michael Paternoster Royal until his ordination to the episcopate in 1990. He returned to England as the Assistant Bishop of Leicester before retiring in 2001.
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