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