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Gledhill was the 98th Bishop of Lichfield. [4] He was enthroned in Lichfield Cathedral on 15 November 2003 and he retired on 30 September 2015. [5] Following his retirement he moved back to Canterbury where he lived and had permission to officiate in its Diocese. [6] Gledhill published Leading a Local Church in the Age of the Spirit.
The Bishop of Lichfield is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers 4,516 km 2 (1,744 sq. mi.) of the counties of Powys , Staffordshire , Shropshire , Warwickshire and West Midlands .
Kenneth John Fraser Skelton CBE (16 May 1918 – 30 July 2003) was the 2nd Bishop of Matabeleland in what was then known as Rhodesia [1] and subsequently the 96th Bishop of Lichfield. [2] He was born on 16 May 1918 and educated at Dulwich College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. [3]
Michael Geoffrey Ipgrave OBE (born 18 April 1958) is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2016, he has been the 99th Bishop of Lichfield, the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Lichfield. He was the Bishop of Woolwich, an area bishop in the Diocese of Southwark, from 2012 to 2016. [2] He served as Archdeacon of Southwark between 2004 and 2012.
From 1943 he was Vicar and Rural Dean of Leeds [6] [failed verification] and an Honorary Canon of Ripon Cathedral (1947-53) before his elevation to the episcopate as Bishop of Lichfield in 1953. [7] Reeve also served as Chaplain to King George VI from 1945 to 1952 and to Queen Elizabeth II 1952 to 1953. [8]
Robert de Stretton (died 1385) was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield following the death of Roger Northburgh in 1358. [1] A client of Edward, the Black Prince, he became a "notorious figure" [2] because it was alleged that he was illiterate, although this is now largely discounted as unlikely, as he was a relatively efficient administrator.
Memorial to John Hacket in Lichfield Cathedral. He was born in London and educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge. [1] On taking his degree he was elected a fellow of his college, and soon afterwards wrote the comedy, Loiola (London, 1648), which was twice performed before King James I.
Henry Dudley Ryder (21 July 1777 – 31 March 1836 [1]) was a prominent English evangelical Anglican bishop in the early years of the nineteenth century, most notably as Bishop of Lichfield. He was the first evangelical to be raised to the Anglican episcopate.