Bill Westwood

Bill Westwood is used on the radio name of William John Westwood ( born December 28, 1925 in Saul, Gloucestershire, † 15 September 1999 Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire ). William Westwood was a British, Anglican theologian and Bishop of Peterborough.

Bill Westwood grew up in Wrexham and Wrexham attended the Grammar School. Westwood did his military service after the end of World War II in South -East Asia and studied afterwards at Emmanuel College at Cambridge University. His training as a priest, he was then at Westcott House, Cambridge. His first priestly office, he took up in Hull. Then he had a pastorate in Lowestoft and then in Norwich. In Norwich, the ancestral home of Anglia TV he came through regional television and radio programs for the first time in contact with the media in his role as a priest. Westwood was previously noticed in his churches by the fact that he knew how to make worship so that the number of worshipers increased, since the responders services the entire family, and his sermons were highly praised and content.

In 1975, Bill Westwood, the position of the Bishop of Edmonton in the diocese of London, which covers a large part of North London. During his time in London he became nationally known as Bill Westwood, as he was a regular in a presented by Terry Wogan morning radio show to listen to in the articles under the title Pause For Thought on BBC Radio 2. Westwood, knew not only the radio listeners in the short contributions as a man of the people to speak, he was also a good interlocutor for the Wogan known for his irony and sarcasm.

In 1984, Westwood, the position of the Bishop of Peterborough. In political as well as theological questions Westwood was conservative and thus probably the only bishop who supported the policies of Margaret Thatcher, as he himself remarked. With the acquisition of his office in Peterborough, however, were associated with the hope that he would modernize the structures of the diocese, which he managed successfully. Despite its conservative stance he stood up for the Church in the very controversial priesthood for women. As Bishop of Peterborough, he was from 1989 until his retirement in 1995 a member of the House of Lords. With the change to Peterborough changed also Westwood's presence in the media. Westwood began contributions to the BBC Radio 4 program Thought For The Day to speak. Here he was now presented as William Westwood and his short broadcasts were dominated by a priestly dignity and deeper thoughts, where his love of poetry was still recognizable. Westwood's contributions were very popular with the listeners and he continued his work for BBC Radio 4, even after his retirement continued. His last post was sent 14 days before his death.

Bill Westwood was marry, he had a son, the hip-hop DJ Tim Westwood and a daughter.

Trivia

1996 ruled a church court that a church in Oundle, Northamptonshire should attach a gargoyle with the face of Bill West Woods.

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  • The Rt Rev Bill Westwood - Conservative cleric Whose down-to -earth approach to God enlivened the airwaves in: The Guardian, September 17, 1999, accessed on September 16, 2013
  • Obituary: The Right Rev William Westwood in: The Independent, September 17, 1999, accessed on September 16, 2013
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  • Bishop of Peterborough
  • Member of the House of Lords
  • Anglican Bishop ( 20th Century)
  • Briton
  • Born in 1925
  • Died in 1999
  • Man
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