John Went | |
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former Bishop of Tewkesbury | |
Church | Church of England |
Diocese | Diocese of Gloucester |
Installed | 1996 |
Term ended | 2 March 2013 (retired) |
Predecessor | Jeremy Walsh |
Successor | Martyn Snow |
Other posts | Archdeacon of Surrey (1989–1996) |
Orders | |
Ordination | c. 1968 |
Consecration | 1996 |
Personal details | |
Born | 11 March 1944 |
Nationality | British |
Denomination | Anglican |
Spouse | Rosemary Dunn (m. 1968) |
Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |
This article is about the bishop. For the Protestant martyr see John Went (martyr).
John Stewart Went (born 11 March 1944) was the Anglican Bishop of Tewkesbury from 1996 until 2 March 2013.
He was educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Went married Rosemary Dunn in 1968 before embarking on a clerical career with a curacy in Northwood, London followed by an incumbency at Margate. Vice-principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford from 1983 until 1989 when he became Archdeacon of Surrey. In 1996 he became the suffragan Bishop of Tewkesbury.