Christopher Luxmoore

Christopher Charles Luxmoore (9 April 1926 – 24 February 2014^[1]) was the eighth Bishop of Bermuda.^[2]

Luxmoore was educated at Sedbergh School and Trinity College, Cambridge and ordained in 1953. His first post was as a curate at St John the Baptist, Newcastle upon Tyne after which he was Priest in Charge of St Bede’s, Newsham, County Durham. He was then Rector of Sangre Grande, Trinidad and after that Vicar of Headingley, Leeds. He was Precentor and Canon Residentiary of Chichester Cathedral from 1981^[3] until his election to the See of Bermuda in 1984, and was the first ever Bishop to be consecrated there.^[4] On his return to England in 1989 he became Archdeacon of Lewes & Hastings,^[5] a post he held until retirement in 1991.

References

↑ Diocese of Chichester – Bishop Martin pays tribute to Bishop Christopher 1926 - 2014 (Accessed 1 March 2014)
↑ Mid Ocean News
↑ “Crockford's clerical directory, 1995” (Lambeth,Church House ISBN 0-7151-8088-6)
↑ The Times, Monday, Nov 26, 1984; pg. 16; Issue 61996; col B Court Circular
↑ ”Who's Who 1992 “(London, A & C Black ISBN 0-7136-3514-2)

Archdeacons of Lewes, of Hastings and of Lewes & Hastings

High Medieval	Jordan de Melburne Joceline Eustachius de Leveland Reginald de Wintonia William de Lughteburg Robert Passelewe Simon de Clympingham Henry Godfrey de Peckham Thomas de Berghstede

Late Medieval	Thomas Cobham John de Godele Hamelin de Godele John Geytentun Thomas de Codelowe Walter de Lyndrich William de Loughteburgh John Courdray Walter Forey Nicholas/Richard Stone John Wendover John Brampton Lewis Coychurch Thomas Hanwell William Skylton John Dogett John Plemth Simon Climping Thomas Oatley Richard Hill Edward Vaughan William Atwater William Cradock Oliver Pole Anthony Wayte Edward More

Early modern	John Sherry Richard Brisley Robert Taylor Edmund Weston Thomas Drant William Coell William Cotton John Mattock Richard Buckenham William Hutchinson Thomas Hook Philip King Nathaniel Hardy Toby Henshaw Joseph Sayer Richard Bowchier James Williamson Edmund Bateman Thomas D'Oyly John Courtail Matthias D'Oyly Edward Raynes Thomas Birch Julius Hare William Otter

Late modern	John Hannah Robert Sutton Theodore Churton (became Archdeacon of Hastings) Henry Southwell, Bishop suffragan of Lewes Hugh Hordern Francis Smythe James Morrell Peter Booth Max Godden (became Archdeacon of Lewes & Hastings)

Hastings (1912–1975)	created from Lewes Theodore Churton (previously Archdeacon of Lewes) Benedict Hoskyns Arthur Upcott Thomas Cook, Bishop suffragan of Lewes Arthur Alston Ernest Reid Guy Mayfield dissolved/merged to Lewes & Hastings

Lewes & Hastings	Max Godden (previously Archdeacon of Lewes) Christopher Luxmoore Hugh Glaisyer Nicholas Reade Philip Jones renamed to Hastings

Hastings (2014–present)	Philip Jones (previously Archdeacon of Lewes & Hastings) Stan Tomalin (Acting)

Bishops of Bermuda

Arthur Browne John Jagoe Anthony Williams John Armstrong Eric Trapp Robert Stopford Anselm Genders Christopher Luxmoore Bill Down Ewen Ratteray Patrick White Nicholas Dill