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Encyclopedia > Harry James Carpenter

The Rt Revd Harry James Carpenter (19011993) was an English theologian and clergyman. He was Warden of Keble College, Oxford (19391955), and then 37th Bishop of Oxford (19551970). 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... College name Keble College Collegium Keblense Named after John Keble Established 1870 Sister College Selwyn College Warden Professor Dame Averil Cameron DBE FBA JCR President Paul Dwyer Undergraduates 435 MCR President Tom Robinson Graduates 219 Homepage Boatclub Keble College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Bishop of Oxford is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Oxford in the Province of Canterbury. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...


He married Urith Monica Trevelyan, a teacher, and their son was the broadcaster and biographer Humphrey Carpenter. Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter (April 29, 1946 – January 4, 2005) was an English biographer, author and radio broadcaster. ...


From 1962 to 1970 he lived in the village of Cuddesdon, where there had historically been a Bishop's Palace, but his successors found this impractical and in 1978 the bishops reverted to living within the city [1]. He initiated the ecumenical discussions which eventually resulted in the building of the Church of Christ the Cornerstone in Milton Keynes. Cuddesdon is a pre-Domesday village located in the hundred of Bullingdon, within the county of Oxfordshire in England. ... Milton Keynes is a purpose-built, high-technology new city in South East England. ...


There is a parish school named after Bishop Carpenter in the Oxfordshire village of North Newington. Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in south-east England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ...


Notes

  1. ^ http://www.oxford.anglican.org/thedoor/no_palace.html

External links

  • Bishop Carpenter's appeal for new churches, March 1958
  • Bishop Carpenter pictured in 1969

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