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4 unusual facts about Bishop of Rochester


Church of Pakistan

Its most internationally famous clergyman, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, formerly diocesan bishop of Raiwind in West Punjab, was given sanctuary by Robert Runcie, the then-Archbishop of Canterbury when his life was imperilled; he then taught at Oxford and served as Bishop of Rochester, England.

James Callan

The Bishop of Rochester, Matthew Clark, reassigned Callan to a community in Elmira, New York.

Lionel Ford

Ford married in 1904 Mary Catherine Talbot, daughter of Edward Stuart Talbot, who was successively Bishop of Rochester, Southwark and Winchester.

Towards the conversion of England

Towards the Conversion of England was a 1945 report produced by the Church of England Commission on Evangelism, chaired by the evangelical Bishop of Rochester, Christopher Chavasse.


Thomas Chillenden

He represented both Christ Church Priory and the English crown at the 1409 Council of Pisa, though five years earlier he had refused to accept the role of bishop of Rochester, to which he had been elected.

Thomas Park

He was brought up as an engraver, and produced mezzotint portraits, including John Thomas, bishop of Rochester, and Miss Penelope Boothby, after Sir Joshua Reynolds; Mrs. Jordan as the Comic Muse, after John Hoppner; and a Magdalen after Ubaldo Gandolfi.


see also

Bishop Kearney

James E. Kearney (1884–1977), Roman Catholic Bishop of Salt Lake City and Bishop of Rochester, United States

David Say

Say's funeral service was celebrated in the nave of Canterbury Cathedral on 27 September 2006 and a public memorial service was held on 2 February 2007 in Rochester Cathedral (with a sermon by the then Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali).

John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor

He also edited the English works of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (1876); Thomas Baker's History of St John's College, Cambridge (1869); Richard of Cirencester's Speculum historiale de gestis regum Angliae 447–1066 (1863–1869); Roger Ascham's Schoolmaster (new ed., 1883); the Latin Heptateuch (1889); and the Journal of Philology.

John Trilleck

Trilleck was the nephew of Adam Orleton, successively Bishop of Hereford, Worcester and Winchester and the elder brother of Thomas Trilleck, later Bishop of Rochester.

Thomas Dampier

As bishop of Rochester he proposed an address from the clergy thanking the crown for requiring an undertaking from the ministry not to move in the matter of Catholic emancipation.

Visions of Ecstasy

This led to a debate with the Bishop of Rochester on BBC Radio Kent.