Colin Bennetts

Colin Bennett ( born September 9, 1940 † July 10, 2013 ) was a British Anglican theologian and Bishop of Coventry.

Life

Colin Bennett grew up in Cornwall and London. After he had made his secondary education at the Battersea Grammar School, he studied at Jesus College, University of Cambridge Modern and Medieval Languages ​​, before he received his training as a priest at Ridley Hall, Cambridge.

Bennett had his first job as a priest of 1965-1969 in Tonbridge. From Tonbridge, he moved to a priestly office in Oxford, where he held various positions at first only in the urban church work, then in the student pastoral care and finally from 1980 responsible for both groups. In 1990, he took a job at Chester Cathedral and then in 1994 was appointed Suffragan Bishop of Buckingham in the Diocese of Oxford. 1998 Colin Bennett was the eighth Bishop of Coventry. In this role he was on 4 June 2003 to 31 January 2008, a member of the House of Lords.

Soon after he had entered in 2008 as a bishop to retire, a brain tumor was found in him. 2013 succumbed Colin Bennetts this suffering.

Colin Bennett was married since 1965, the couple had two daughters and two sons.

Views

Bennett stood in the theological tradition of evangelicalism in the Church. His particular concern was the missionary work in the communities. In politics, Colin Bennetts occurred especially against the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In May 1999, he had visited Iraq as part of a delegation to assess the impact of sanctions against Iraq. He joined then as a witness in a committee of the House of Commons on and reported his impressions. He was firmly convinced that non-targeted sanctions were not ethically responsible, because they met the most vulnerable members of society. In 2002, he said in an article in the Guardian against an invasion of Iraq because he felt that the evidence for such a move was not sufficient. In 2006, he joined with a group of other bishops against the British government and demanded that these adjusting the arms trade.

Trivia

As a student in Cambridge Bennett came in 1963 with his future wife, as a member of the Cambridge University Musical Society at the Coventry Cathedral in a performance of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem.

The later Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was Bennett's subordinate in his time as a priest in Coventry directly.

Swell

  • The Rt Rev Colin Bennetts July 14, 2013 in The Daily Telegraph, accessed on October 2, 2013
  • Obituary: Bishop Colin Bennetts 1940 2013 in Coventry Observer, July 15, 2013, accessed on October 2, 2013
  • Ex - Coventry Bishop Right Reverend Colin Bennetts funeral at BBC News, July 23, 2013, accessed on October 2, 2013

Publications

  • Posts by Colin Bennett in the House of Lords Hansard
  • Colin Bennetts, Immoral and illogical in The Guardian, August 9, 2002, accessed on October 2, 2013
  • Bishop of Coventry
  • Member of the House of Lords
  • Anglican Bishop ( 20th Century)
  • Anglican Bishop ( 21st century)
  • Briton
  • Born in 1940
  • Died in 2013
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