Geoffrey Rowell
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The Right Reverend Geoffrey Rowell |
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| Bishop in Europe | |
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| Diocese | Diocese in Europe |
| In office | 2001–2013 |
| Predecessor | John Hind |
| Successor | Robert Innes |
| Other posts | Bishop of Basingstoke (1994–2001) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | Deacon 1968 Priest 1969 |
| Consecration | 2 February 1994 by George Carey |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 February 1943 |
| Died | 11 June 2017 (aged 74) |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Residence | Church Road, Worth |
| Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |
Douglas Geoffrey Rowell (13 February 1943 – 11 June 2017) was an Anglican bishop, who served as Bishop of Basingstoke and then as the third Bishop in Europe until his retirement on 8 November 2013. Following his retirement he ministered as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Chichester (from 2013) and in the Diocese of Portsmouth (from 2015). He died in the early morning of Trinity Sunday, 11 June 2017.
Rowell was educated at Winchester College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He took the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (BA)(1964), Master of Arts (MA)(1968), and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)(1968) from Cambridge University, and was incorporated MA and DPhil at Oxford University. In 1997 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity (DD) from Oxford.
Rowell never worked in parochial ministry. From ordination he worked as a lecturer in the University of Oxford, and also as Assistant Chaplain of New College (1968-1972) and then Chaplain of Keble College (1972-1994), until his elevation to the episcopate as Bishop of Basingstoke.
From 1999, Rowell worked as an episcopal patron of Project Canterbury, an online archive of Anglican texts.
Rowell was consecrated as a bishop by George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 2 February 1994 at St Paul's Cathedral, becoming Bishop of Basingstoke, a suffragan bishopric in the Diocese of Winchester.
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