Gordon Bates
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Bates received his ecclesiastical education at Kelham Theological College, being ordained deacon in 1958 and priest 1959. After a Curacy at Eltham he served as a Youth Chaplain in, firstly, the Gloucester and then the Liverpool Dioceses. From 1965 he began a long association with Liverpool Cathedral, becoming in time a Canon Residentiary, Precentor and finally Director of Ordinands.[2] From 1983 he was a Suffragan Bishop,[3] a post he held for 16 years. He retired to Carnforth and is now an Honorary Assistant Bishop within the Carlisle Diocese.[4] Towards the end of his Episcopate he stated:
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The Church has got to realise its missionary responsibilities. We live in a society, whether that be urban or rural, which is now basically second- or even third-generation pagan once again; and we cannot simply work on the premise that all we have to do to bring people to Christ is to ask them to remember their long-held, but dormant faith … in so many instances we have to go back to basics; we are in a critical missionary situation.
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| Preceded by | Bishop of Whitby 1983–1999 |
Succeeded by Robert Ladds |
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- ↑ The Times, Friday, 10 June 1983; p. 16; Issue 61555; col C New Bishop of Whitby
- ↑ ‘BATES, Rt Rev. Gordon’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011 [1], accessed 8 July 2012
- ↑ Crockfords, (London, Church House 1995) ISBN 0-7151-8088-6
- ↑ Listed as such
- ↑ Mission shaped church
