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John Oliver (bishop)

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Diocese
  
Diocese of Hereford

Successor
  
Anthony Priddis

Predecessor
  
John Eastaugh


Term ended
  
2003 (retirement)

Installed
  
1990

Name
  
John Oliver

Other posts
  
Archdeacon of Sherborne 1985–1990

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John Keith Oliver (born 14 April 1935) was the Anglican Bishop of Hereford from 1990 to 2003.

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Education and marriage

Oliver was educated at Westminster and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He married Meriel Moore in 1961 and they had two sons and one daughter.

Ministry

After a curacy in Norfolk, he spent a period as chaplain and assistant master at Eton College. Following incumbencies in Devon, he became Archdeacon of Sherborne and Rector of West Stafford in Dorset before being ordained to the episcopate in 1990. He was succeeded by Anthony Priddis, previously Suffragan Bishop of Warwick.

References

John Oliver (bishop) Wikipedia