Patrick Campbell Rodger

Patrick Campbell Rodger (born November 28, 1920 in Helensburgh , † July 8, 2002 ) was an Anglican bishop. He was Bishop of Manchester from 1970 to 1978 and Bishop of Oxford from 1978 to 1986 .

He comes from the Scottish Episcopal Church , where he was pastor in Edinburgh . He comes from a middle class family in Helensburgh , Scotland.

Towards the end of World War II, he served in the British intelligence service Royal Corps of Signals . After graduating with honors from Christ Church College , Oxford, he went on to study at Westcott House theological seminary in Cambridge. After his first vicariate in Edinburgh he worked for the Christian Student Union . From 1961 to 1966 he worked for the World Council of Churches . After losing the general secretary election, he returned to Britain. During his tenure as bishop he also served as Chairman of the Churches' Unity Commission and President of the Conference of European Churches . After his retirement he worked as an assistant bishop in Edinburgh . In 1989 he published Songs in a Strange Land, a devotional book of psalms .

He advocated the ordination of women as deacons or priests at an early stage .

In 1974 he became one of the 21 longest serving bishops alongside the five highest bishops of the Church of England as a so-called spiritual lord ( Lord Spiritual ) member of the House of Lords and was a member of this until the end of his term as Bishop of Oxford in 1986.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Times , October 21, 1978; pg. 14; Issue 60438; col A New Bishop of Oxford
2. ^ Independent Obituary
3. ^ Helensburgh heroes web site
4. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
5. ↑ “Who was Who” 1897–2007 London, A & C Black , 1991 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
6. ↑ THE LORD BISHOP OF MANCHESTER

predecessor	Office	successor
William Greer	Bishop of Manchester 1970–1978	Stanley Booth-Clibborn
Kenneth Woollcombe	Bishop of Oxford 1978–1986	Richard Harries