Michael Turnbull

Michael Turnbull (* December 27 1935 in Wombwell, Barnsley ) is an English bishop of the Anglican Church of England.

Life

After leaving school, Turnbull studied at Keble College, Oxford Anglican theology, where in 1958 he graduated. 1960 Turnbull was ordained as a deacon and 1961, his ordination as an Anglican priest in the Manchester Cathedral. Then Turnbull worked as a priest in the Anglican Diocese of Manchester and then moved in 1961 in the Anglican Diocese of St Albans. In 1965, Turnbull position of chaplain (adjunct ) of the Archbishop of York, and in 1969 joined Turnbull his job to become chaplain at the University of York. 1988 Turnbull was consecrated bishop of Rochester, after he had already become Archdeacon of Rochester in 1984. From 1994 until his retirement in 2003 was Turnbull Bishop of Durham. His successor in Durham in 2003 Bishop Nicholas Thomas Wright.

In his tenure as Bishop of Durham Turnbull was chairman of the Anglican Commission on the organization of the Church of England and spiritual force office as Lord Member of the House of Lords. In September 1994, Turnbull came because of an article of the English newspaper News of the World, having been convicted in 1968 for cruising, in the headlines in the British press. The English LGBT OutRage! Organization outed then 1994 Turnbull and nine other Anglican bishops.

Turnbull is married to Brenda Turnbull, and they currently live in Kent. Jointly they have three children and seven grandchildren.