Michael Langrish

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Michael Laurence Langrish (born 1 July 1946) is a British Anglican priest and currently Bishop of Exeter.

The son of Douglas Frank Langrish and Brenda Florence Bassingham was educated at the King Edward School, Southampton and Birmingham University, where he received a Bachelor of Social Sciences degree in 1967 and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education one year later. He was further educated at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in Theology in 1973, and in Ridley Hall, Cambridge.

Langrish was lecturer in education in Nigeria from 1969 to 1971. He became deacon in 1973 and was assistant curate at Holy Trinity Church (Shakespeares Church ) Stratford-upon-Avon until 1976. In 1974, he was ordained as a priest, and was chaplain of Rugby School from 1976 to 1981. In the following, he was made vicar offchurch and diocesan director of ordinands and held this post until 1987. From 1982 to 1989, he was the Bishop of Coventry's examining chaplain, and from 1987 to 1993 rector of the Rugby Team Ministry. Langrish was honourable canon at Coventry Cathedral between 1990 and 1993, and bishop suffragan of Birkenhead between 1993 and 2000. In 2000, he was appointed 70th Bishop of Exeter and became a Lord Spiritual with a seat at the House of Lords in 2005.

He was one of the "rebel" bishops who signed a letter against Rowan Williams' appointment of the Reverend Dr Jeffrey John as Bishop of Reading in 2003. The others were the Bishops of Bradford, Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, Liverpool, Rochester, Southwell and Winchester. They are known to their opponents as the Nazgul.

Since 1968 Langrish has been married to Esther Rudd; they have one son and two daughters.

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• DodOnline. Retrieved on 2006-11-21.

Church of England titles
Preceded by Ronald Brown	Bishop of Birkenhead 1993 –2000	Succeeded by David Andrew Urquhart
Preceded by Geoffrey Hewlett Thompson	Bishop of Exeter 2000 –	Succeeded by Current Incumbent

v • d • e Bishops of Birkenhead Eric Arthur John Mercer • Ronald Brown • Michael Langrish • Gordon Keith Sinclair • David Andrew Urquhart •

v • d • e Bishops of Exeter since 1908 Archibald Robertson • Lord William Gascoyne-Cecil • Charles Edward Curzon • Robert Cecil Mortimer • Eric Arthur John Mercer • Geoffrey Hewlett Thompson • Michael Langrish •

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