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Encyclopedia > Michael Langrish

Michael Laurence Langrish (born 1 July 1946) is a British Anglican priest and currently Bishop of Exeter. July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ... The Bishop of Exeter is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in the Province of Canterbury. ...


The son of Douglas Frank Langrish and Brenda Florence Bassingham was educated at the King Edward School, Southampton and Birmingham University, where he received a Bachelor of Social Sciences in 1967 and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education one year later. He was further educated at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in theology in 1973, and in Ridley Hall, Cambridge. Southampton is a city and major port situated on the south coast of England. ... The University of Birmingham is the oldest of three universities in the English city of Birmingham. ... The Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) is a one-year course in England, Wales and Northern Ireland for undergraduate degree holders that allows them to train to be a teacher. ... Full name Fitzwilliam College Motto Ex antiquis et novissimis optima The best of old and new Named after Fitzwilliam Museum, named after Richard Fitzwilliam, named after Fitzwilliam Street, original location Previous names Fitzwilliam Hall [Non collegiate] (1869), Fitzwilliam House [Non collegiate] (1924) Established 1966 Sister College(s) St Edmund Hall... Bachelor of Arts (B.A., BA or A.B.), from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus is an undergraduate bachelors degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. ... Theology (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογια, logia, words, sayings, or discourse) is reasoned discourse concerning religion, spirituality and gods. ... Ridley Hall is a theological college in Cambridge in the United Kingdom which trains intending ministers for the Church of England. ...


Langrish was lecturer in education in Nigeria from 1969 to 1971. He became deacon in 1973 and was assistant curate at Stratford-upon-Avon with Bishopston until 1976. In 1974, he was ordained the priest, and was chaplain of the Rugby School from 1976 to 1981. In the following, he was made vicar offchurch and diocesan director of ordinands and held this post until 1987. From 1982 to 1989, he was the Bishop of Coventry's examining chaplain, and from 1987 to 1993 rector of the Rugby Team Ministry. Langrish was honourable canon at Coventry Cathedral between 1990 and 1993, and bishop suffragan of Birkenhead between 1993 and 2000. In 2000, he was appointed 70th Bishop of Exeter and became a Lord Spiritual with a seat at the House of Lords in 2005. Deacon is a role in the Christian Church which is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. ... Stratford-upon-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon is a town in Warwickshire, England. ... There are a number of settlements named Bishopston: Bishopston, Bristol, a suburb of the city of Bristol, England. ... A view of Rugby School from The Close, the playing field where according to legend Rugby was invented Rugby School, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, is one of the oldest public schools in England and is perhaps one of the top co-educational boarding schools in the country. ... In the broadest sense, a vicar (from the Latin vicarius) is anyone acting as a substitute or agent for a superior (compare vicarious). In this sense, the title is comparable to lieutenant. ... The roofless ruins of the old cathedral. ... Map sources for Birkenhead at grid reference SJ3088 Birkenhead is a town on The Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, on the left bank of the River Mersey, opposite Liverpool. ... The Lords Spiritual of the United Kingdom, also called Spiritual Peers, consist of the 26 clergymen of the established Church of England who serve in the House of Lords along with the Lords Temporal. ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ...


Since 1968 Langrish has been married to Esther Rudd, they have one son and two daughters.


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Preceded by
Geoffrey Hewlett Thompson
Bishop of Exeter
2000–present
Succeeded by
(current incumbent)

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