Michael Turnbull (Bishop)

Michael Turnbull (born December 27, 1935 in Wombwell , Barnsley ) is an English bishop of the Anglican Church of England .

Life

After finishing school, Turnbull studied Anglican theology at Keble College , Oxford , where he graduated in 1958. In 1960 Turnbull was ordained a deacon and in 1961 he was ordained an Anglican priest at Manchester Cathedral . Then Turnbull worked as a priest in the Anglican Diocese of Manchester and then moved to the Anglican Diocese of St Albans in 1961 . In 1965 Turnbull accepted a position as chaplain ( adjunct ) to the Archbishop of York , and in 1969 Turnbull switched duties to become a chaplain at the University of York . In 1988 Turnbull was ordained Bishop of Rochester , having become Archdeacon of Rochester in 1984 . Turnbull was Bishop of Durham from 1994 until his retirement in 2003 . He was succeeded in Durham in 2003 by Bishop Nicholas Thomas Wright .

During his tenure as Bishop of Durham, Turnbull was chairman of the Anglican Commission for the Organization of the Church of England and a member of the House of Lords as a spiritual lord . In September 1994, Turnbull hit the headlines of the UK press because of an article in the News of the World newspaper for being convicted of cruising in 1968 . The English LGBT OutRage! Organization outed then 1994 Turnbull and nine other Anglican bishops.

Turnbull is married to Brenda Turnbull and they currently live in Kent . Together they have three children and seven grandchildren.

Web links

• Diocese in Europe: Michael Turnbull

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tatchell: Outing forces church to act ( Memento of the original of November 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

predecessor	Office	successor
David Say	Bishop of Rochester 1988–1994	Michael Nazir-Ali
David Edward Jenkins	Bishop of Durham 1994-2003	Nicholas Thomas Wright