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Mar 11, 1944 80 years old
Bishop of Tewkesbury; British Anglican bishop
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About John Went
- This article is about the bishop.
- For the Protestant martyr see John Went (martyr). John Stewart Went (born 11 March 1944) was the Anglican Bishop of Tewkesbury from 1996 until 2 March 2013. He was educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
- He was made deacon at Michaelmas 1969 (29 September), by Robert Stopford, Bishop of London, at St Paul's Cathedral, and ordained priest the Michaelmas following (29 September 1970), by Graham Leonard, Bishop of Willesden, at St Mary's, Willesden.
- Went married Rosemary Dunn in 1968 before embarking on a clerical career with a curacy in Northwood, London followed by an incumbency at Margate.
- Vice-principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford from 1983 until 1989 when he became Archdeacon of Surrey.
- In 1996 he became the suffragan Bishop of Tewkesbury; he was consecrated a bishop on 25 January 1996 at Westminster Abbey.
