Geoffrey Rowell facts for kids
Quick facts for kids The Right Reverend Geoffrey Rowell |
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| Bishop in Europe | |
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| Diocese | Diocese in Europe |
| In Office | 2001–2013 |
| Predecessor | John Hind |
| Successor | Robert Innes |
| Other posts | Bishop of Basingstoke (1994–2001) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | Deacon 1968 Priest 1969 |
| Consecration | 2 February 1994 by George Carey |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 February 1943 |
| Died | 11 June 2017 (aged 74) |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |
Douglas Geoffrey Rowell (/ˈraʊəl/; 13 February 1943 – 11 June 2017) was an Anglican bishop, who served as Bishop of Basingstoke and then as the third Bishop in Europe until his retirement on 8 November 2013. Following his retirement he ministered as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Chichester (from 2013) and in the Diocese of Portsmouth (from 2015). He died in the early morning of Trinity Sunday, 11 June 2017.
Education
Rowell was educated at Winchester College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He received the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (1964), Master of Arts (1968), and Doctor of Philosophy (1968) from Cambridge University and was incorporated MA and DPhil at Oxford University. In 1997 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity (DD) from Oxford.
Career
Rowell never worked in parochial ministry. After ordination he worked as a lecturer in the University of Oxford and assistant chaplain of New College (1968–1972) and then chaplain of Keble College (1972–1994), until his ordination to the episcopate as Bishop of Basingstoke.
From 1999, Rowell was an episcopal patron of Project Canterbury, an online archive of Anglican texts.
Rowell was consecrated as a bishop by George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 2 February 1994 at St Paul's Cathedral, becoming Bishop of Basingstoke, a suffragan bishopric in the Diocese of Winchester.
Rowell was commissioned as Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe (often called "Bishop in Europe") on 18 October 2001 at St Margaret's, Westminster, and enthroned at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar, on 1 November 2001.
Views
At the November 2012 meeting of the General Synod of the Church of England, Rowell was one of the three members of the House of Bishops who voted against the ordination of women as bishops.
Rowell was part of the traditionalist Anglo-Catholic wing of the Church of England.
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, 1981–2001
- Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester, 1991–1993
- Suffragan Bishop of Basingstoke, 1994–2001
- Bishop in Europe, 2001–2013
Styles
- The Reverend Geoffrey Rowell (1968–1981)
- The Reverend Canon Geoffrey Rowell (1981–1994)
- The Right Reverend Geoffrey Rowell (1994–2017)
Writings
Rowell was extensively published in the field of Anglo-Catholic church history. He was the founding president of the Anglo Catholic History Society. He authored or co-authored the following:
- Rowell, Geoffrey; Stevenson, Kenneth; Williams, Rowan (2003). Love's Redeeming Work: The Anglican Quest for Holiness. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-150087-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=1cq8IXYeS-IC.
- — (1991). The Vision Glorious: Themes and Personalities of the Catholic Revival in Anglicanism. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-826332-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=x4MZ3vnpcNIC.
- —; Chilcott-Monk, Julien (2003). Come, Lord Jesus!: Daily Readings for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. Morehouse. ISBN 978-0-8192-1964-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=Mc_zedstQ-cC.
- — (1992). The English religious tradition and the genius of Anglicanism. Ikon. ISBN 978-1-871805-02-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=jWmJAAAAMAAJ.
Rowell co-authored and edited these anthologies:
- — (1990). Confession and Absolution (Essays on the sacrament of penance). London: SPCK. ISBN 0-281-04442-2.
- — (1993). The Oil of Gladness - Anointing in the Christian tradition (Essays on the sacrament of unction). London: SPCK. ISBN 0-8146-2245-3.
See also
- Order of St. David of Wales, St. Alban and St. Crescentino
