David Staffurth Stancliffe was born on 1 October 1942 and is a British retired Anglican bishop in the Church of England.
15 Facts About David Stancliffe
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David Stancliffe was provost of Portsmouth Cathedral from 1982 to 1993 and Bishop of Salisbury from 1993 to 2010.
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David Stancliffe is the third generation of his family to be in ordained ministry.
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The son of Michael Stancliffe, a Dean of Winchester who was himself ordained at Salisbury Cathedral, Stancliffe was born in 1942 in Devizes, Wiltshire, where his father was curate of St James' Southbroom, later serving at Ramsbury and Cirencester before becoming chaplain to Westminster School.
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David Stancliffe has a Master of Arts degree from Oxford.
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David Stancliffe was ordained as a deacon on 8 December 1967 by John Moorman, Bishop of Ripon, at the chapel of the Hostel of the Resurrection, University of Leeds and as a priest on 22 December 1968 by Howard Cruse, Bishop of Knaresborough, at Ripon Cathedral.
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David Stancliffe served as curate of the Leeds parish of St Bartholomew's Armley.
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In 1977, David Stancliffe was appointed a canon residentiary of Portsmouth Cathedral and the diocesan director of ordinands and, subsequently, the lay ministerial adviser.
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David Stancliffe was appointed Provost of Portsmouth in 1982 and his major work from then until 1993 was the completion and reordering of Portsmouth Cathedral, shaping its life and work to fulfil its primary function of supporting the Bishop of Portsmouth.
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In July 1993, David Stancliffe succeeded Colin James, Bishop of Winchester, as chairman of the Church of England's Liturgical Commission, a position which he held until 2005.
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David Stancliffe has been a member of the Council for the Care of Churches.
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David Stancliffe was consecrated a bishop on 30 November 1993 by George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey, and enthroned Bishop of Salisbury in Salisbury Cathedral on 9 December 1993.
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In June 2008, David Stancliffe suffered a stroke and while remaining Bishop of Salisbury took a leave of absence from episcopal duties.
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David Stancliffe's final act as bishop was the ordination of priests at Salisbury Cathedral at Petertide on 3 July 2010.
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David Stancliffe is a fellow of St Chad's College, Durham, the president of Affirming Catholicism and vice-president of the Royal School of Church Music.