John Gibbs (bishop)

Jonathan Gibbs ( born March 15, 1917 in Bournemouth, † December 20, 2007 in Cambridge ) was a British Anglican theologian and Bishop of Coventry.

After leaving school, Jonathan Gibbs worked initially, but then he went to Bristol to study at the Western College and next to a theological training as a priest in the Church of kongregationalistichen London University to obtain. From 1943 to 1949 he worked as a parish priest in various Congregational churches. In 1949, he took a management position in the Student Christian Federation World. In 1955, he decided to convert to the Anglican Church, and again received a theological training at Lincoln Theological College in Lincoln. Then Gibbs was parish priest in Bristol. But after only two years in this office, he was appointed priest and head of the theological department at St Matthias College a teacher training school in Bristol. In 1962 he was the deputy head of St Matthias College. From 1964 to 1967 he worked at Keswick Hall College, also a means for teacher training in Keswick in Norfolk. 1967 appointed him to the Anglican Church in the " Durham Commission on the Future of Religious Education in Schools " and in 1968 they ranked him at the same time the Bishop of Norwich. In 1973 he was appointed Suffragan Bishop of Bradwell in Essex. In 1976 he was appointed Bishop of Coventry. Jonathan Gibbs was thus the only priest, who was appointed from a Congregational church to arise as bishop of the Anglican Church. As Bishop of Coventry was Jonathan Gibbs 1982 to 1985 a member of the House of Lords. After he, as Bishop of Coventry retired in 1985, he was still working for the Synod of the Anglican Church.

Johnathan Gibbs had been married since 1943 and had a son and a daughter.

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• The Right Reverend John Gibbs in The Daily Telegraph, December 31, 2007, accessed on June 9, 2013

• Bishop of Coventry
• Member of the House of Lords
• Anglican Bishop ( 20th Century)
• Briton
• Born 1917
• Died in 2007
• Man