Bishops of Southwark - Mervyn Stockwood, Cyril Garbett, Thomas Frederick Butler, Bishop of Southwark, Hubert Murray Burge, Edward Stuart Talbot (Paperback)

Chapters: Mervyn Stockwood, Cyril Garbett, Thomas Frederick Butler, Bishop of Southwark, Hubert Murray Burge, Edward Stuart Talbot, Robert Williamson, Bertram Fitzgerald Simpson, Ronald Oliver Bowlby. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Arthur Mervyn Stockwood (27 May 1913 13 January 1995) was Anglican Bishop of Southwark from 1959 to 1980. Mervyn Stockwood was born in Bridgend, Wales to a middle-class family. His solicitor father was killed during World War I. He was introduced to Anglo-Catholic worship at All Saints', Clifton, which reinforced his love of ritual and sense of the dramatic. He was educated at The Downs School and Kelly College; in 1931 he entered Christ's College, Cambridge where he graduated in 1934. Having studied for the Anglican ministry at Westcott House theological college in Cambridge, he was ordained deacon in 1936, priest in 1937. First curate, then Vicar of St Matthew's, Moorfields for nineteen years, he was also missioner to Blundell's School. In 1955 he was appointed Vicar of Great St Mary's, Cambridge where his preaching drew large congregations of undergraduates, gaining him a national reputation. A flamboyant figure, he was for a time a Labour councillor, having converted to socialism while at theological college. In 1959, at the suggestion of Geoffrey Fisher, Harold Macmillan appointed him to the see of Southwark. Under Stockwood, Southwark became one of the best known dioceses in the Church of England. Stockwood was encouraging of both the radical and conservative wings of the church. On the one hand he encouraged priests wearing jeans in public, marches against racism and the training of "worker priests" in the Southwark Ordination Course, yet he was also the first English diocesan bishop to preach at the Nationa...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=742072