Gordon Bates
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Gordon Bates was the eighth Bishop of Whitby[1]. He was born on 16 March 1934 and received his ecclesiastical education at Kelham Theological College, being ordained Deacon in 1958 and Priest 1959. After a Curacy at Eltham he served as a Youth Chaplain in, firstly, the Gloucester and then the Liverpool Dioceses. From 1965 he began a long association with Liverpool Cathedral, becoming in time a Canon Residentiary, Precentor and finally Director of Ordinands [2]. From 1983 he was a Suffragan Bishop[3], a post he held for 16 years. He retired to Carnforth and is now an Honorary Assistant Bishop within the Carlisle Diocese[4]. Towards the end of his Episcopate he stated
“The Church has got to realise its missionary responsibilities. We live in a society, whether that be urban or rural, which is now basically second- or even third-generation pagan once again; and we cannot simply work on the premise that all we have to do to bring people to Christ is to ask them to remember their long-held, but dormant faith … in so many instances we have to go back to basics; we are in a critical missionary situation.” CA News April 1998[5]
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| Preceded by Clifford Conder Barker |
Bishop of Whitby 1983 – 1999 |
Succeeded by Robert Sidney Ladds |
[edit] Notes
- ^ The Times, Friday, Jun 10, 1983; pg. 16; Issue 61555; col C New Bishop of Whitby
- ^ Who's Who 1992 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0713635142
- ^ Crockfords,(London, Church House 1995) ISBN 0715180886
- ^ Listed as such
- ^ Mission shaped church.
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