Gordon Bates

Gordon Bates

Gordon Bates was the eighth Bishop of Whitby.[1] He was born on 16 March 1934 and 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

“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.” CA News April 1998[5]

Notes

  1. ^ The Times, Friday, 10 June 1983; p. 16; Issue 61555; col C New Bishop of Whitby
  2. ^ Who's Who 1992 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0713635142
  3. ^ Crockfords,(London, Church House 1995) ISBN 0715180886
  4. ^ Listed as such
  5. ^ Mission shaped church.
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Clifford Conder Barker		 Bishop of Whitby
1983 – 1999		 Succeeded by
Robert Sidney Ladds
v · d · eBishops of Whitby

Henry Woollcombe  • Harold Hubbard • Walter Baddeley • Philip Wheeldon • George Snow  • John Yates  • Clifford Barker • Gordon Bates • Robert Ladds • Martin Warner



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