Geoffrey Rowell
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The Right Reverend Dr Douglas Geoffrey Rowell (born 13 February 1943) (called Geoffrey Rowell) is an Anglican priest, currently the third Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe.
[edit] 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 of Gibraltar in Europe, from 2001
Rowell was commissioned as Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe on 18 October 2001 at St Margaret's, Westminster and enthroned in Gibraltar Cathedral, 1 November 2001. His diocese is much wider than Gibraltar, and he continues to live in England, at Crawley, West Sussex.
[edit] References
- Who's Who, 2006 (A.C. Black, London, 2006)
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