Derek Rawcliffe | |
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Born | 8 July 1921 Manchester |
Died | 1 February 2011[1] Leeds |
Education | Leeds University |
Church | Church of England Melanesian Anglican Scottish Episcopal Church |
Ordained | 1944 |
Writings | “The Meaning of it All is Love”, 2000 “Seasons of the Spirit”, 2003 “Pilgrimage to Melanesia”, 2005 “Gethsemane to Calvary" 2006 |
Congregations served | Claines St George, Worcester |
Offices held | Archdeacon of Southern Melanesia Bishop of the New Hebrides Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway |
The Rt Rev Derek Rawcliffe OBE (8 July 1921 – 1 February 2011) was an English clergyman and author. He served as Anglican Bishop of the New Hebrides[2] and Episcopalian Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway.[3] He was the first bishop in the Church of England to announce that he was gay, after disclosing his sexuality on television in 1995.[4]
He was born in Manchester, the son of a tobacconist, on 8 July 1921, brought up in Gloucester, educated at Leeds University[5], and ordained in 1944.[6] After a curacy at Claines St George, Worcester he was a teacher in the Solomon Islands until 1953 when he became Archdeacon of Southern Melanesia and the New Hebrides. He was the first Bishop of the New Hebrides from 1975 to 1980[7] when he was translated to Glasgow and Galloway, in the Scottish Episcopal Church. He retired in 1991.
Rawcliffe died on the February 1st of 2011 at the age of 89.[1]
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Preceded by Inaugural appointment |
Bishop of Vanuatu 1975 – 1980 |
Succeeded by Harry Tevi |
Preceded by Frederick Goldie |
Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway 1981 – 1991 |
Succeeded by John Mitchell Taylor |