David Evans (bishop)

David Richard John Evans (b 5 June 1938) was an Anglican missionary bishop from 1978 to 1988.[1]

Evans was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and ordained in 1966.[2] His first post was a curacy at Christ Church, Cockfosters.[3] In 1968 he became a missionary pastor with the Argentine Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, serving until 1977. He was the Chaplain of the Good Shepherd Church in Lima then Bishop of Peru. From 1988 to 1993 he was an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Bradford; within the Diocese of Chichester from 1994 to 1997; and the Diocese of Birmingham from 1997 until 2003. He was an associate priest for the Stourdene benefice[4] from 2003 until 2010.

References

  1. ↑ ‘EVANS, Rt Rev. David Richard John’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015 ; online edn, Nov 2015 accessed 21 March 2016
  2. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  3. ↑ Church web-site
  4. ↑ This includes the parishes of Newbold on Stour, Alderminster, Butlers Marston, Ettington, Halford and Pillerton Hersey
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
John William Hawkins Flagg		 Bishop of Peru
1978–1988 		Succeeded by
Alan Leslie Winstanley


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