Stanley Booth-Clibborn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Stanley Booth-Clibborn

British bishop

Date of Birth: 20-Oct-1924

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 06-Mar-1996

Profession: politician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Stanley Booth-Clibborn

  • Stanley Eric Francis Booth-Clibborn (20 October 1924 – 6 March 1996) was a British Anglican bishop in the late 20th century.
  • He was Bishop of Manchester from 1979 to 1992.
  • He was well known during his episcopal ministry for his outspoken political views and interventions on behalf of the poor. Booth-Clibborn was the great-grandson of William Booth, the founder of The Salvation Army.
  • He was educated at Highgate School.
  • He was called up to the British Army during World War II, and served in the Royal Artillery and the Royal Indian Artillery.
  • Having returned to England after five years military service, he studied history at Oriel College, Oxford, and then trained for the priesthood at Westcott House, Cambridge. Booth-Clibborn was ordained in the Church of England.
  • He served two curacies in the Diocese of Sheffield in the first half of the 1950s.
  • In 1956, he emigrated to Kenya where he worked for the Christian Council of Kenya, and then for a newspaper.
  • In 1967, he returned to England and was Priest-in-Charge of a group of inner-city churches in Lincoln.
  • Then, from 1970 to 1979, he was Vicar of the Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge; Great St Mary's is the university church of the University of Cambridge. In 1978, it was announced that Booth-Clibborn would be the next Bishop of Manchester, the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Manchester in the north of England.
  • The following year, he was consecrated a bishop and took up the post.
  • In 1985, he joined the House of Lords as a Lord Spiritual.
  • He retired from full-time ministry in 1992.

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