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Name: KIRKHAM, John Dudley Galtrey (Rt. Rev.)

Birth Date: 20 Sep 1935 London

Death Date: 10 Oct 2019 Salisbury

First Date: 1955

Last Date: 1956

Profession: Bishop in Church of England. Since 1976 Bishop of Sherborne and (since 1992) Bishop to H.M. Forces

Married: In Lambeth 1986 Hester Elizabeth Lockett Gregory

Children: Stepchildren - Hester, Wynn, Anne, Thorne

Book Reference: KAR

War Service: 1955-56 2nd Lt. Royal Hampshire Regt. Seconded to 23 (K) Bn. KAR

School: Lancing College, Trinity College, Cambridge; Westcott House Theological College

General Information:

Wikipedia: Between 1954 and 1956, after finishing school, he completed his military service with the Royal Hampshire  Regiment and King's African Rifles. He then studied at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1956 to 1959, and at the theological college Westcott House, Cambridge from 1960 to 1962. Kirkham was made a deacon at Michaelmas 1962 (30 September) at St Mary's, Woodbridge and ordained a priest the Michaelmas following (29 September 1963) at St Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich — both times by Arthur Morris, Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. His ministry began with a curacy at St Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich, after which he was Chaplain to Launcelot Fleming, Bishop of Norwich. From 1970 to 1972, he was an assistant priest at St Martin-in-the-Fields and St Margaret's, Westminster. Finally, before his appointment to the episcopate, he was Director of Ordinands in the Diocese of Canterbury and Domestic Chaplain to Archbishop of Canterbury.

He was consecrated a bishop on 30 November 1976, by Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Canterbury Cathedral. From 1976 until his retirement in 2001, he served as Bishop of Sherborne, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Salisbury. He was additionally an area bishop from 1981, and Bishop to the Forces from 1992. On 30 November 1991 he was appointed Chaplain to the Order of St John.

Bishop of Sherborne (1994)

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