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10 Facts About Jonathan Gledhill

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Jonathan Michael Gledhill was an English Anglican clergyman.

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Jonathan Gledhill was the Bishop of Southampton from 1996 to 2003, and the 98th Bishop of Lichfield from 2003 to 2015.

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Jonathan Gledhill was educated at Keele University and the University of Bristol.

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Jonathan Gledhill trained for the ministry at Trinity College, Bristol.

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From 1995 to 1998, Jonathan Gledhill was a member of the General Synod.

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Jonathan Gledhill was enthroned in Lichfield Cathedral on 15 November 2003 and he retired on 30 September 2015.

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Jonathan Gledhill published Leading a Local Church in the Age of the Spirit.

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Jonathan Gledhill's wife Jane, was a university lecturer and lay reader; they had one daughter and one son.

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Jonathan Gledhill announced he had Parkinson's disease, shortly before his retirement from ministry in 2015.

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Jonathan Gledhill died on 1 November 2021, at the age of 72.