Patrick Rodger

Patrick Campbell Rodger ( born November 28, 1920 in Helensburgh, † July 8, 2002 ) was an Anglican bishop. He was from 1970 to 1978 Bishop of Manchester from 1978 to 1986 Bishop of Oxford.

Towards the end of the Second World War he served in the British Signal Corps Royal Corps of Signals. After a completed degree with honors at Christ Church College in Oxford, he continued to study at the theological seminary Westcott House, Cambridge. After his first curacy in Edinburgh, he worked for the Christian Student Alliance. From 1961 to 1966 he worked for the World Council of Churches. After he was Secretary General inferior in the election, he returned to Britain. During his time as bishop, he was also chairman of the Churches ' ​​Unity Commission and President of the Conference of European Churches. After his retirement, he worked as an assistant bishop in Edinburgh. In 1989 he published Songs in a Strange Land, a devotional book with psalms.

He spoke spoke out early for the ordination of women as deacons or priests from.

In 1974 he was selected as one of the 21 most senior bishops in addition to the five highest bishops of the Church of England as a so-called spiritual Lord (Lord Spiritual ) Member of the House of Lords and was this to the end of his tenure as Bishop of Oxford in 1986.