The Rt Revd Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford, giving a speech in 2004.

The Right Reverend Richard Douglas Harries (born June 1936) is a Church of England bishop, currently the 41st Bishop of Oxford. Rt Revd Richard Harries, speaking at the Friends meeting house, Oxford, 2004-04-28. ... Rt Revd Richard Harries, speaking at the Friends meeting house, Oxford, 2004-04-28. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Reverend is an honorary prefix to the names of most Christian clergy and ministers. ... June is the sixth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with a length of 30 days The month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter and equivalent to the Greek goddess Hera. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England, and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. ... A bishop is an ordained member of the Christian clergy who, in certain Christian churches, holds a position of authority. ... The Bishop of Oxford is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Oxford in the Province of Canterbury. ...

Educated at Wellington College, Harries is a liberal reformer noted for his opposition to Section 28 and for his appointment of the gay canon Jeffrey John as Bishop of Reading in 2003, from which Jeffrey John subsequently withdrew amid controversy over homosexual clergy. In 2002 Harries joined the biologist Richard Dawkins in denouncing the Emmanuel Schools Foundation for teaching creationism. Wellington College, Berkshire, the national monument to the Duke of Wellington, is an English public school, which was granted its royal charter in 1853. ... // Introduction Liberal Christianity, Progressive Christianity or Liberalism is a movement within Christianity that is often characterized by the following features: internal diversity of opinion an embracing of higher criticism of the Bible with a corresponding willingness to question supernatural elements of biblical stories (e. ... 1988 Sir Ian McKellen with Michael Cashman at the Gay Rights March on Manchester in protest of Section 28. ... Look up canon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Reverend Dr Jeffrey Philip Hywel John, MA DPhil (born 1953) is a Church of England cleric, and the current Dean of St Albans. ... The Bishop of Reading is a suffragan bishop in the Church of England, based in Reading, Berkshire. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Richard Dawkins Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS (born March 26, 1941), known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist and popular science writer. ... The Emmanuel Schools Foundation (previously the Vardy Foundation after its founder, Sir Peter Vardy) intends to set up a total of seven specialist independent schools in the UK under the Governments City Academies Initiative. ... This article is about the Abrahamic belief; creationism can also refer to origin beliefs in general or, centuries earlier, to an alternative to traducianism. ...

Richard Harries was born in June 1936. He was Dean of Kings College, London prior to his appointment as the 41st bishop of Oxford in 1987, and took his seat in the House of Lords in 1993. 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Kings College London (often abbreviated to KCL) in London is the largest and one of the most prestigious colleges in the federal University of London, with some 19,500 registered students. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is 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). ...

On 25 October 2005 it was announced that he would retire on his 70th birthday in June 2006. October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 67 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...