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Sep 16, 1935 88 years old
Bishop of Brixworth
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About Paul Barber Bishop
- Paul Everard Barber (born 16 September 1935) was the inaugural Bishop of Brixworth.Barber was educated at Sherborne School and St John’s College, Oxford.
- Ordained in the Church of England: made deacon on Trinity Sunday 1960 (12 June), by Ivor Watkins, Bishop of Guildford, at Holy Trinity Pro-Cathedral, Guildford and ordained priest the Trinity Sunday following (28 May 1961), by George Reindorp, Bishop of Guildford, at Guildford Cathedral, after a Curacy at St Francis, Westborough he served as Vicar of Camberley with Yorktown before becoming Rural Dean of Farnham.
- This in turn led to his becoming Archdeacon of Surrey and finally the first Bishop of Brixworth (sole suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Peterborough).
- He took up that See with his consecration as bishop by Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 25 January 1989 at Westminster Abbey.
- He retired after 12 years to Street and is now an honorary assistant bishop within the Bath and Wells Diocese and a governor of Millfield School.
