Geoffrey Rowell

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The Right Reverend Dr Douglas Geoffrey Rowell (born 13 February 1943) is an Anglican priest, currently the third Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe.

Rowell was ordained priest in the Church of England in 1969. He became Canon, Chichester Cathedral, in 1981, and was Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Leicester, 1979-1990 and to the Bishop of Winchester, 1991-1993. Before his current role, Rowell was the Suffragan Bishop of Basingstoke, from 1994.

He was commissioned as Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe on 18 October 2001 at St Margaret's, Westminster, and enthroned in Gibraltar Cathedral, 1 November 2001. He is based in England, at Crawley, West Sussex.