Harry James Carpenter

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The Rt Revd Harry James Carpenter (1901–1993) was an English theologian and clergyman. He was Warden of Keble College, Oxford (1939–1955), and then 37th Bishop of Oxford (1955–1970).

He married Urith Monica Trevelyan, a teacher, and their son was the broadcaster and biographer Humphrey Carpenter.

From 1962 to 1970 he lived in the village of Cuddesdon, where there had historically been a Bishop's Palace, but his successors found this impractical and in 1978 the bishops reverted to living within the city ^[1]. He initiated the ecumenical discussions which eventually resulted in the building of the Church of Christ the Cornerstone in Milton Keynes.

There is a parish school named after Bishop Carpenter in the Oxfordshire village of North Newington.

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1. ^ http://www.oxford.anglican.org/thedoor/no_palace.html

[edit] External links

• Bishop Carpenter's appeal for new churches, March 1958
• Bishop Carpenter pictured in 1969