23 Facts About Geoffrey Rowell

Douglas Geoffrey Rowell was an Anglican bishop and historian.

Geoffrey Rowell served as Bishop of Basingstoke and then as the third Bishop in Europe until his retirement on 8 November 2013.

Geoffrey Rowell died in the early morning of Trinity Sunday, 11 June 2017.

Geoffrey Rowell was the eldest son of Cecil Victor Rowell, an engineer, and Kate Rowell, a teacher of sick children.

Geoffrey Rowell was then awarded a Hampshire County Council scholarship and finished his schooling at Winchester College, then an all-boys independent boarding school.

Geoffrey Rowell studied theology at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1964: as per tradition, his BA was promoted to a Master of Arts degree in 1968.

Geoffrey Rowell continued his studies and graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1968.

Geoffrey Rowell was later incorporated MA at the University of Oxford.

Geoffrey Rowell was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1968 and as a priest in 1969.

In 1972, Geoffrey Rowell was appointed fellow, chaplain, and tutor at Keble College, Oxford: he would stay at the college for the next 22 years.

Geoffrey Rowell revised his doctorate into his first book Hell and the Victorians, published in 1974.

Geoffrey Rowell was additionally appointed a university lecturer in 1977.

Geoffrey Rowell's research focused on the Oxford Movement, and he taught undergraduate paper on John Henry Newman and the Oxford Movement.

Geoffrey Rowell was appointed Wiccamical Prebendary at Chichester Cathedral in 1980.

Geoffrey Rowell was consecrated as a bishop by George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 2 February 1994 at St Paul's Cathedral, becoming Bishop of Basingstoke, a suffragan bishopric in the Diocese of Winchester.

From 1999, Geoffrey Rowell was an episcopal patron of Project Canterbury, an online archive of Anglican texts.

Geoffrey Rowell was commissioned as Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe on 18 October 2001 at St Margaret's, Westminster, and enthroned at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar, on 1 November 2001.

Geoffrey Rowell was part of the traditionalist Anglo-Catholic wing of the Church of England.

In 2004, Geoffrey Rowell disagreed publicly with parishioners in Turkey over his plans to lease a historic and recently renovated church building for use as a nightclub.

In January 2007, Geoffrey Rowell suspended the chaplain of Istanbul, Ian Sherwood, and the entire chaplaincy council.

Geoffrey Rowell was a member of the men-only, high-church dining club, Nobody's Friends, and wrote its official history in 2000.

Geoffrey Rowell was extensively published in the field of Anglo-Catholic church history.

Geoffrey Rowell was the founding president of the Anglo Catholic History Society.