Diocese Diocese of Worcester Name Tony Dumper Successor Rupert Hoare | Predecessor Michael Mann In office 1977–1993 | |
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Other posts Area bishop of Dudley (1993)
Honorary assistant bishop in Birmingham (from 1993) Ordination 1947 (deacon); c. 1948 (priest) | ||
The Right Reverend Anthony Charles Dumper (4 October 1923 - 27 August 2012) was the suffragan Bishop of Dudley from 1977 until 1993 and the first area bishop under the Worcester diocese area scheme from 1993.
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Early life and education
Dumper was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge. As a pacifist, he was a conscientious objector during the Second World War, working on the land.
Ordained ministry
He was ordained in 1947, and began his ecclesiastical career with a Curacy in Greenwich. He went overseas to be Vicar of Perak and then Archdeacon of North Malaysia. From 1970 to 1977, having returned to England, he was vicar of St Peter's Church, Stockton-on-Tees and rural dean of Stockton-on-Tees. He was elevated to the Episcopate as the Bishop of Dudley, serving from 1977 to his retirement in 1993.
In retirement, he continued to serve the church as an honorary assistant bishop within the Diocese of Birmingham.
Personal life
A keen gardener, Dumper was married with two sons and one daughter.
Tony Dumper died on 27 August 2012, age 88, at his home in Bristol.