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Geoffrey Rowell

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Church
  
Church of England

Diocese
  
Gibraltar in Europe

Denomination
  
Anglican

Role
  
Bishop of Basingstoke

Predecessor
  
John Hind

Consecration
  
1994

Province
  
Canterbury

In office
  
2001-2013

Name
  
Geoffrey Rowell

Successor
  
Robert Innes

Ordination
  
1968

Geoffrey Rowell
Other posts
  
Bishop of Basingstoke 1994–2001

Born
  
13 February 1943 (age 81) (
1943-02-13
)

Education
  
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Winchester College

Books
  
Hell and the Victorians, The vision glorious, The repertory movement, The liturgy of Christian burial, William Terriss and Richard P

Object no 11 the spectacles of john keble presented by the rt rev d dr geoffrey rowell


Douglas Geoffrey Rowell (born 13 February 1943) is a retired Anglican bishop, having served as the third Bishop in Europe until his retirement on 8 November 2013. Rowell is currently an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Chichester.

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Education

Rowell was educated at Winchester College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Career

Since 1999, Rowell has been an episcopal patron of Project Canterbury, an online archive of Anglican texts.

Rowell was commissioned as Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe (often called "Bishop in Europe") on 18 October 2001 at St Margaret's, Westminster and enthroned in the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar, 1 November 2001.

At the November 2012 meeting of the General Synod of the Church of England, Rowell was one of the three members of the House of Bishops who voted against the ordination of women as bishops.

Controversy

In January 2007, Rowell suspended the chaplain of Istanbul, Ian Sherwood, and the entire chaplaincy council.

Writings

Rowell has authored or co-authored the following:

  • Love's Redeeming Work: The Anglican Quest for Holiness. OUP Oxford. 2003. ISBN 978-0-19-150087-9.  with Kenneth Stevenson and Rowan Williams
  • The Vision Glorious: Themes and Personalities of the Catholic Revival in Anglicanism. Clarendon Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-19-826332-6. 
  • Come, Lord Jesus!: Daily Readings for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. Morehouse. 2003. ISBN 978-0-8192-1964-0.  with Julien Chilcott-Monk
  • The English religious tradition and the genius of Anglicanism. Ikon. 1992. ISBN 978-1-871805-02-4. 

    • Outline of career

  • Ordained priest in the Church of England, 1969
  • Chaplain of Keble College, Oxford, 1971–1994
  • Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Leicester, 1979–1990
  • Canon of Chichester Cathedral, 1981
  • Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester, 1991–1993
  • Suffragan Bishop of Basingstoke, 1994–2001
  • Bishop in Europe, 2001–2013

    • Styles

  • Geoffrey Rowell Esq (1943–1968)
  • The Revd Geoffrey Rowell (1968–1981)
  • The Revd Canon Geoffrey Rowell (1981–1994)
  • The Rt Revd Geoffrey Rowell (1994–present)

    • References

    Geoffrey Rowell Wikipedia
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