Patrick Rodger

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Patrick Campbell Rodger (28 November 1920 – 8 July 2002) was an Anglican bishop and ecumenist. He was the Bishop of Manchester (1970–1978) and Bishop of Oxford (1978–1986).^[1]

He came from the Scottish Episcopal Church,^[2] having served ministries in Edinburgh (including a time as Provost of St Mary's Cathedral). He came from a prosperous middle-class family in Helensburgh,^[3] Argyll and Bute, Scotland.^[4]

Towards the end of the Second World War he served in the Royal Corps of Signals.^[5] After a brilliant undergraduate career at Christ Church, Oxford (BA 1947) he studied for ordination at Westcott House, Cambridge. After his first curacy in Edinburgh, he worked for the Student Christian Movement. From 1961 to 1966 he was a member of staff of the World Council of Churches (Executive Secretary for Faith and Order). He returned from Geneva after being nominated (but not elected) as General Secretary of the WCC. In the event the post went to the Revd Eugene Carson Blake. During his service as an Anglican Bishop he was also chair of the Churches' Unity Commission and president of the Conference of European Churches. As Bishop of Oxford he presided over the beginning of an Area scheme which delegated functions from the diocesan to his suffragan or "Area" bishops, in order to decentralise the work of the diocese. In retirement he served as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Edinburgh. In 1989, he published Songs in a Strange Land, a devotional book on praying with the Psalms.

He was an early advocate of the ordination of women as deacons and priests.

References

↑ The Times, 21 October 1978; pg. 14; Issue 60438; col A New Bishop of Oxford
↑ Independent Obituary
↑ Helensburgh heroes web site
↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
↑ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7

Church of England titles
Preceded by Reginald Foskett	Provost of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh 1967–1970	Succeeded by George Crosfield
Preceded by William Greer	Bishop of Manchester 1970–1978	Succeeded by Stanley Booth-Clibborn
Preceded by Kenneth Woollcombe	Bishop of Oxford 1978–1986	Succeeded by Richard Harries

v t e Provosts of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh

James Montgomery John Wilson Edward Henderson William Margetson Logie Danson David Dunlop Ivor Ramsay Hector Gooderham Reginald Foskett Patrick Rodger George Crosfield Graham Forbes

v t e Bishops of Manchester

James Prince Lee James Fraser James Moorhouse Edmund Knox William Temple Guy Warman William Greer Patrick Rodger Stanley Booth-Clibborn Christopher Mayfield Nigel McCulloch

v t e Bishops of Oxford

Early modern	Robert King Thomas Goldwell Hugh Curwen John Underhill John Bridges John Howson Richard Corbet John Bancroft Robert Skinner William Paul Walter Blandford The Lord Crew Henry Compton John Fell Samuel Parker Timothy Hall John Hough William Talbot John Potter Thomas Secker John Hume Robert Lowth John Butler Edward Smallwell John Randolph

Late modern	Charles Moss William Jackson Edward Legge Charles Lloyd Richard Bagot Samuel Wilberforce John Mackarness William Stubbs Francis Paget Charles Gore Hubert Burge Thomas Strong Kenneth Kirk Harry Carpenter Kenneth Woollcombe Patrick Rodger Richard Harries John Pritchard

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 91381562 LCCN: no99070816 GND: 128187808

Persondata
Name	Rodger, Patrick Campbell
Alternative names
Short description	British bishop
Date of birth	28 November 1920
Place of birth
Date of death	8 July 2002
Place of death

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