DEATHS among the episcopate recorded in 2021 included those of the Rt Revd John Waine, former Bishop of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich, and of Chelmsford; the Rt Revd Ian Griggs, former Suffragan Bishop of Ludlow; the Rt Revd Roy Warke, former Bishop of Cork, Cloyne & Ross; the Rt Revd Humphrey Taylor, former Suffragan Bishop of Selby; the Rt Revd Paul Barber, former Suffragan Bishop of Brixworth.
The Rt Revd Robert Hardy, former Bishop of Lincoln; the Rt Revd Dr Alec Graham, former Bishop of Newcastle; the Rt Revd David Lunn, former Bishop of Sheffield; the Rt Revd Jonathan Gledhill, former Bishop of Lichfield; the Rt Revd John Taylor, former Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway; the Rt Revd David Galliford, former Suffragan Bishop of Hulme and of Bolton; the Rt Revd Patrick Harris, former Bishop of Northern Argentina and of Southwell.
The Rt Revd Dr Jacob Ajetunmobi, first Bishop of Ibadan South; the Rt Revd J. Jon Bruno, former Bishop of Los Angeles; the Rt Revd Ellinah Wamukoya, Bishop of Swaziland; the Most Revd Fereimi Cama, former Bishop of Polynesia; the Rt Revd Carolyn Tanner Irish, former Bishop of Utah; the Rt Revd John Osmers, first Bishop of Eastern Zambia; the Rt Revd Dr John Spong, former Bishop of Newark, NJ.
THE Roman Catholic theologian and priest Professor Hans Küng was one of the prominent clergy whose deaths were recorded among the year.
Among other clergy were former archdeacons, including the Ven. Kenneth Unwin (Pontefract); the Ven. Dennis Ede (Stoke-Upon-Trent); the Ven. Jeffrey Watson (Ely); the Ven. Lorys Davies (Bolton); the Ven. John Oliver (Leeds); the Ven. Hedley Ringrose (Cheltenham); the Ven. Ian Russell (Coventry); the Ven. John Blackburn (the Army); and the Ven. Leonard Moss (Hereford).
There were also several former deans, including the Very Revd Christopher Campling (Ripon); the Very Revd George Moller (Connor); the Very Revd Derek Goodrich (Georgetown, Guyana); and the Very Revd Paul Burbridge (Norwich); and a former Provost of Leicester, the Very Revd Derek Hole.
Also among the clergy whose deaths were reported were the Revd Lloyd Jones, Area Dean of Synod Bangor; the Revd Jane Holmes, a Team Rector in Norwich diocese; the Revd Iain Young, Vicar of the Ascension, Lavender Hill; the Revd Thomas Mordecai, Vicar of Winkfield and Cranbourne; the Revd Kenneth Shill, Team Vicar in the South Cheltenham Team Ministry.
The Revd Owen Murphy, Team Vicar in Withycombe Raleigh; the Revd Carol Langford, Vicar of West Purbeck; the Ven. Sue Pinnington, Archdeacon of the Gwent Valleys; the Revd Elizabeth Burchell, Vicar of St Leonard’s, Banbury; Canon Anthony Stidolph, former school chaplain; Canon Paul Rose, who had served in Southern Rhodesia.
The Revd Bill Snelson, former General Secretary of Churches Together in England; the Revd Barney Milligan, former Anglican Representative to the European Institutions; Canon Jane Sinclair, former Steward of Westminster Abbey; the Revd Martin Preston, a Gay Christian Movement founding member.
Fr Eric Simmons CR, former Superior at Mirfield; the Revd Dr John Muddiman, NT scholar; Canon Peter Ball, spiritual director; the Revd Professor John Polkinghorne, physicist and theologian; Canon Michael Bourdeaux, founder of Keston College; Canon John Davies, former teacher of theology in Southampton; Canon Philip Crowe, former Principal of Salisbury and Wells Theological College; Canon Ian Ainsworth-Smith, former hospital chaplain; the Revd Professor Colin Morris, historian; and Sister Helen Julian, Minister General CSF.
THE Duke of Edinburgh, died on 9 April, aged 99. Other deaths among the laity included those of Sister Mary Teresa, former Reverend Mother SSM; Barbara Whitley, niece of Bishop George Bell; Dr Bex Lewis, Christian thinker about digital technology; Dr Kenneth Hylson-Smith, author and administrator; Peter Ainsworth, Chairman of the Churches Conservation Trust; John Coleman, iconographer; Primrose Peacock, founder of the Friends of Albania; Virginia Johnstone, former Secretary of the English Committee of the Friends of the Anglican Centre; Kevin Mayhew, publisher.
The musical world lost the organists Lucian Nethsingha (Exeter Cathedral); Richard Lloyd (Durham Cathedral); Roger Fisher (Chester Cathedral); Dr Richard Shephard, composer and former Head of the Minster School, York; the former musical adviser for Songs of Praise, Bob Prizeman; the record producer Brian Culverhouse; and the countertenor and publisher George Rizza.
THE deaths also occurred of the Revd Dr Joel Edwards, former General Director of the Evangelical Alliance; and the evangelist Luis Palau, whose ministry was modelled on Billy Graham’s.