- Gordon Fallows
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William Gordon Fallows KCVO, known as Gordon Fallows, (1913 – August 1979) was a Church of England bishop from the broad church tradition. He served as the sixth suffragan Bishop of Pontefract and subsequently fourth diocesan Bishop of Sheffield. He is also known for having chaired the working party which produced the ‘Sheffield Number’ used to allocate clergy numbers between the dioceses of the Church of England.[1]
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Personal Life and Education
Fallows was born in 1913 in Barrow-in-Furness. He attended Barrow Grammar School and then St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He trained for ordination at Ripon Hall, Oxford.[2] He died in office in August 1979 suffering from cancer and Parkinson’s disease.
Ministerial career
Curate in Leamington Spa
Vicar of Styvechale, Coventry
Vicar of Preston, Lancashire
Archdeacon of Lancaster
Principal of Ripon Hall.
Bishop of Pontefract 1968 - 71
Bishop of Sheffield 1971 – 79
Vice Chairman of the Church’s Central Board of Finance [3]
Vice Chairman Church of England Pensions Board
Fallows chaired the Church’s Clergy Deployment Commission, created to address the concentration of Church of England clergy in London and the south-east of England. In 1974 it produced the Sheffield Report recommending a formula to calculate what proportion of available clergy each diocese should receive, known as the Sheffield Number. Although at the time it was “denounced by some critics as striking at the roots of the church” [4] it remains in use as of 2008.
Biography
Gordon Fallows of Sheffield, John S. Peart-Binns, The Memoir Club ISBN 978-1-84104-183-4
References
External links
Bishops of Pontefract Campbell Hone • Tom Longworth • Arthur Morris • George Clarkson • Eric Treacy • Gordon Fallows • Thomas Hare • John Finney • David James • Tony Robinson
Bishops of Sheffield Suffragan Bishop John Quirk (1901–1914)Bishops Leonard Burrows (1914–1939) • Leslie Hunter (1932–1962) • John Taylor (1962–1971) • Gordon Fallows (1972–1979) • David Lunn (1980–1997) • Jack Nicholls (1997–2008) • Steven Croft (2009–present)
Categories:- 1913 births
- 1979 deaths
- Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
- Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon
- Church of England clergy
- Bishops of Pontefract
- Bishops of Sheffield
- Archdeacons of Lancaster
- Clerks of the Closet
- Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
- People from Barrow-in-Furness
- 20th-century Anglican bishops
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