Geoffrey Rowell

Geoffrey Rowell (Vienna, 2009)

Douglas Geoffrey Rowell ( February 13, 1943 - June 11, 2017 in Chichester ) was a Bishop of the Diocese in Europe of the Church of England .

Douglas Geoffrey Rowell studied at Winchester College and Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. In 1969 he was ordained a priest in the Church of England. He then worked as chaplain of Keble College in Oxford from 1971 to 1994, 1981 as canon of Chichester Cathedral and as Examining Chaplain of the Bishop of Leicester (1979-1990) and the Bishop of Winchester (1991-1993). Before Rowell was appointed Bishop of Gibraltar on October 18, 2001 in St Margaret's Church as the successor of John William Hind and took possession of his diocese on November 1, he was suffragan Bishop of Basingstoke (1994-2001). As Bishop of Gibraltar, Rowell was not only responsible for the Anglicans of the Church of England in Gibraltar, but for all Anglicans throughout mainland Europe. Rowell was also Assistant Bishop of the Old Catholic Church in Germany and Coadjutor Bishop of Dušan Hejbal of the Czech Old Catholic Church . He has been succeeded as Bishop of Gibraltar since 2014 by Robert Innes . Rowell was most recently Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Chichester. He died after a brief illness on the morning of Trinity Sunday 2017 at St. Wilfrid's Hospice in Chichester.

Works

• Love's Redeeming Work: The Anglican Quest for Holiness , Geoffrey Rowell, Kenneth Stevenson and Rowan Williams , Oxford University Press , ISBN 978-0-19-107058-7
• The Vision Glorious , Geoffrey Rowell, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-826332-6
• Come, Lord Jesus !: Daily Readings for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany , Geoffrey Rowell & Julien Chilcott-Monk, Morehouse Publishing, ISBN 978-0-8192-1964-0

Web links

Commons : Geoffrey Rowell  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Biography of Geoffrey Rowell
• Assistant bishops

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bishop Martin pays tribute to Bishop Geoffrey Rowell , press release of the Diocese of Chichester from 11. June 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2017
2. ↑ Innes, Robert (June 11, 2017). "TRIBUTES TO BISHOP GEOFFREY ROWELL RIP" ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . europe.anglican.org. The Diocese in Europe. Retrieved 11 June 2017. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Michael Manktelow	Bishop of Basingstoke 1994–2001	Trevor Willmott
John William Hind	Bishop of Europe 2001–2013	Robert Innes