Michael Langrish
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Michael Laurence Langrish (born 1 July 1946) is a British Anglican priest and currently Bishop of Exeter.
The son of Douglas Frank Langrish and Brenda Florence Bassingham was educated at the King Edward School, Southampton and Birmingham University, where he received a Bachelor of Social Sciences in 1967 and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education one year later. He was further educated at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in theology in 1973, and in Ridley Hall, Cambridge.
Langrish was lecturer in education in Nigeria from 1969 to 1971. He became deacon in 1973 and was assistant curate at Stratford-upon-Avon with Bishopston until 1976. In 1974, he was ordained the priest, and was chaplain of the Rugby School from 1976 to 1981. In the following, he was made vicar offchurch and diocesan director of ordinands and held this post until 1987. From 1982 to 1989, he was the Bishop of Coventry's examining chaplain, and from 1987 to 1993 rector of the Rugby Team Ministry. Langrish was honourable canon at Coventry Cathedral between 1990 and 1993, and bishop suffragan of Birkenhead between 1993 and 2000. In 2000, he was appointed 70th Bishop of Exeter and became a Lord Spiritual with a seat at the House of Lords in 2005.
Since 1968 Langrish has been married to Esther Rudd, they have one son and two daughters.
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- DodOnline. Retrieved on November 21, 2006.
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