Installed 1993 Name David Bentley Predecessor Peter Ball Term ended 2003 (retirement) Role Bishop of Lynn Ordination 1961 | Denomination Anglican Education University of Leeds Consecration July 1986 Spouse Clarice Bentley Successor Michael Perham Diocese Diocese of Gloucester | |
Other posts Bishop of Lynn (1986–1993) Born 7 August 1935 (age 88) ( 1935-08-07 ) Children Katharine Gorick, Simon Bentley, Rachel Harrison, Matthew Bentley | ||
David Edward Bentley (born 7 August 1935) is a retired English bishop. He was formerly the Bishop of Lynn and, subsequently, the Bishop of Gloucester in the Church of England.
Bentley was educated at Great Yarmouth Grammar School and the University of Leeds. He studied for ordination at Westcott House, Cambridge and was ordained in 1961. He began his ordained ministry with as a curate at St Ambrose's Bristol and Holy Trinity with St Mary in Guildford; after which he was rector of Headley, East Hampshire, Rural Dean of Esher and (his final position before ordination to the episcopate) Warden of the Community of All Hallows, Ditchingham.
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