John Gibbs (Bishop)

Jonathan Gibbs (born March 15, 1917 in Bournemouth , † December 20, 2007 in Cambridge ) was a British Anglican theologian and Bishop of Coventry .

After graduating from school, Jonathan Gibbs initially worked, but then went to Bristol to study at Western College and receive a theological training as a priest in the Congregational Church at London University . From 1943 to 1949 he worked as a parish priest in various congregational parishes. In 1949 he took on an administrative position in the Christian Student Union . In 1955 he decided to convert to the Anglican Church and received another theological training at Lincoln Theological College in Lincoln . Then Gibbs became a parish priest in Bristol. But after only two years in that office, he was called to serve as priest and theological director at St Matthias College, a teacher training college in Bristol. In 1962 he became the assistant director of St Matthias College. From 1964 to 1967 he worked at Keswick Hall College, also a teacher training facility in Keswick , Norfolk . In 1967 the Anglican Church appointed him to the "Durham Commission on the Future of Religious Education in Schools" and in 1968 he was assigned to the Bishop of Norwich at the same time. In 1973 he was called to be suffragan bishop of Bradwell, Essex . In 1976 he was called to be Bishop of Coventry. Jonathan Gibbs was the only priest who came from a congregational church and was called to be bishop of the Anglican Church. As Bishop of Coventry, Jonathan Gibbs was a member of the House of Lords from 1982 to 1985 . After he retired as Bishop of Coventry in 1985, he served in the Synod of the Church of England.

Johnathan Gibbs had been married since 1943 and had a son and a daughter.

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• The Right Reverend John Gibbs , The Daily Telegraph , December 31, 2007, accessed June 9, 2013

predecessor	Office	successor
Neville Welch	Bishop of Bradwell 1973–1976	Charles Derek Bond
Cuthbert Bardsley	Bishop of Coventry 1976–1985	Simon Barrington-Ward