John Bickersteth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Bickersteth

Bishop of Bath and Wells; Bishop of Warrington

Date of Birth: 06-Sep-1921

Place of Birth: Canterbury, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 29-Jan-2018

Profession: writer, priest, politician, author

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About John Bickersteth

  • John Monier Bickersteth (6 September 1921 – 29 January 2018) was an English Anglican clergyman who served as the Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1975 to 1986, and Clerk of the Closet from 1979–1989. Bickersteth descends from a clerical family over several generations; in total six family members have been Church of England Bishops.
  • His father was Canon Edward Monier Bickersteth, and his mother, Inez Katharine Jelf/Bickersteth, was a friend of the actress Sybil Thorndike.
  • His uncle was Julian Bickersteth and his great-great-grandfather was Charles James Blomfield. Educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford, he was ordained in 1951 and began his career with a Curacy at St Matthew Moorfield's Bristol.
  • After a spell as Vicar of St Stephen's Church, Chatham he ascended to the Episcopate in 1970 as Suffragan Bishop of Warrington, and after five years was further promoted to Bath.
  • From 1979 he was Clerk of the Closet for a decade.
  • Bickersteth died in January 2018 at the age of 96.

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