- John Waine
John Waine KCVO (born 20th June 1930) was
Bishop of Chelmsford from 1986 to 1996; and previouslyBishop of Saint Edmundsbury and Ipswich from 1978 to 1986 [The Times , Wednesday, Jun 07, 1978; pg. 20; Issue 60321; col E Church news Next Bishop of St Edmundsbury] ,Bishop of Stafford , 1975-78. He also served asClerk of the Closet from 1989 to 1997, and in retirement served as a lay member on thePress Complaints Commission [ [http://www.pcc.org.uk/news/?article=NDQxMA Joins PCC] ] . Educated atPrescot Grammar School and theUniversity of Manchester he studied for ordination atRidley Hall, Cambridge before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a Curacy at St Mary's, West Derby [ [http://www.stmarywestderby.org/ Church web site] ] (Liverpool ). Incumbencies at Ditton,Southport andKirkby in the same diocese followed [Who's Who 1992 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0713635142] before elevation to the Episcopate in the midseventies . He received an honary doctorate from the University of Essex. [ [http://www.essex.ac.uk/vc/orate2002/Waineoration.rtf University of Essex Citation] ]Notes
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