Taverne, by contrast, organised only one meeting at which others spoke in his support, to which he invited the Bishop of Southwark Mervyn Stockwood and newspaper columnist Bernard Levin.
He memorably told John Cleese and Michael Palin at the end of the discussion that they would "get their thirty pieces of silver".
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Shortly before his death he was one of ten Church of England bishops 'outed' (i.e. alleged to be a closet homosexual) by the radical gay organisation OutRage!.
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Stockwood is remembered for his appearance on the BBC chat show Friday Night, Saturday Morning at the end of September 1979, with Christian broadcaster Malcolm Muggeridge, arguing that the film Monty Python's Life of Brian was blasphemous.
Mervyn Stockwood | Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven | Mervyn Johns | William Mervyn | Mervyn Dillon | What Have You Done Today Mervyn Day? | Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt | Mervyn Wingfield | Mervyn Rose | Mervyn O'Gorman | Mervyn Hill | Mervyn Griffith-Jones | Mervyn Edward Archdale | Mervyn Davies, Baron Davies of Abersoch | Mervyn Bunter | Kim Stockwood | George Mervyn Lawson | Ernest Mervyn Taylor | Eric Mervyn Lindsay | Audley Mervyn |
He was Chaplain of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1955-9, and thereby became associated with some of the best known clerics of his generation: Mervyn Stockwood, John Robinson (author of the bestseller Honest to God), Robert Runcie and Trevor Huddleston.
The film is a "Pythonesque" dramatization of the 1979 televised debate on the talk show Friday Night, Saturday Morning between John Cleese and Michael Palin, members of British comedy troupe Monty Python, and Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood, the then Bishop of Southwark.
Mervyn Stockwood (born 1913), socially liberal and theologically conservative former Bishop of Southwark