David Sheppard
David Stuart Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Liverpool ( born March 6, 1929 in Reigate, Surrey, England; † 5 March 2005 in West Kirby, Merseyside, England ) was a British cricketer and a British Anglican theologian. He was from 1975 to 1997 Bishop of Liverpool in the Church of England.
Life
Sheppard was the son of a solicitor, and attended Sherborne School in Sherborne in Dorset, where his talent was recognized for cricket first. After his military service as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment, he studied at Trinity Hall College, University of Cambridge. He played for Cambridge University Cricket Club ( Blue 1950, 1951 and 1952, Captain 1952), the Sussex County Cricket Club (Captain 1953) and for the British English Cricket Team. As a student he played with Freddie Brown at the tournament of the English cricket team in Australia ( 1950/1951 ). Because of his success with the Cambridge University Cricket Club in 1953, he won the title of " Wisden Cricketer of the Year". In 1954 he was captain, as the representative for the absent Len Hutton, in two Test cricket tournaments of the English cricket team against the Pakistan Cricket Team.
Sheppard, who wanted to be a barrister originally, decided during his student days in Cambridge for the church service. In preparation for the priesthood, he attended the Ridley Hall College, Cambridge, where he attended lectures by Owen Chadwick and Maurice Wiles. Great impression on him the lectures of the Church 's, socialists and pacifists Donald Soper, Baron Soper, who learned as a guest lecturer at Cambridge. Theologically Sheppard was particularly influenced by EJH Nash. In 1955 he was ordained a deacon; 1956 was followed by the ordination. Until 1963 he continued his career as a test cricket player; He was the first ordained minister who was active as a cricketer.
He was after his ordination at first assistant priest ( Curate ) in Islington. After that, he was director and head ( Warden ) of the Mayflower Family Centre in the district of Canning Town in London.
In 1969 he was awarded the title " Bishop of Woolwich " suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Southwark. In 1975 he became Bishop of Liverpool. He was the hitherto youngest diocesan bishop of the Church of England at the age of 46 years. Sheppard was in particular an for poverty reduction, social reforms and better living conditions in the inner city communities of Liverpool; He was also a staunch opponent of apartheid.
He worked closely with Derek Worlock, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, together, intensively for a Zusammenrbeit ud improving relations between the Anglican Church and the Catholic one. In 1985, he traveled to the disaster at Heysel Stadium in Brussels, where many Italian fans of the football team Juventus died, together with Worlock to Turin, as a gesture and a sign of reconciliation. Sheppard was also an outspoken critic of the government of Margaret Thatcher. In 1985 he became a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Commission on Urban Priority Areas, which in the City 's social problems and issues relevant themed in their report Faith in downtown communities. 1997 Sheppard retired. His successor was James Jones.
After Sheppard had sat during his time as bishop from 1980 to 1997 as a spiritual Lord in the House of Lords, he was named in the New Year Honours for Life Peer in 1998. He held the title Baron Sheppard of Liverpool, of West Kirby in the County of Merseyside and sat for the Labour Party in the House of Lords.
Sheppard published two autobiographies: Parson's Pitch (1966) and Steps Along Hope Street (2002); the title he chose Hope Street after street in Liverpool, which the Liverpool Cathedral and Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral together.
Private and death
Sheppard was married to Grace Sheppard (born Isaac ), whom he had met in Cambridge. The marriage was a daughter, Jenny, out. This later converted to Catholicism. Lady Sheppard died on 10 November 2010 at the age of 75 from cancer.
In December 2003, Sheppard announced that he is suffering from colon cancer. On March 5, 2005 Sheppard died at the age of 75 years. In the Liverpool Cathedral, his ashes were laid down.