Stephen Verney, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Stephen Verney

British bishop

Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1919

Date of Death: 09-Nov-2009

Profession: priest

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Stephen Edmund Verney (17 April 1919 – 9 November 2009) was the second Bishop of Repton from 1977 to 1985; and from then on an honorary assistant bishop within the Diocese of Oxford. The son of Sir Harry Verney, 4th Baronet, he was born on 17 April 1919 and educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford.
In 1947 he married Priscilla Schwerdt; he was made deacon at Michaelmas 1950 (1 October), by Russell Barry, Bishop of Southwell, at Southwell Minster, and ordained priest (presumably the next Michaelmas).
He began his career with a curacy at Gedling after which he was: Priest in charge of St Francis Clifton, Nottingham; Vicar of Leamington Hastings; Diocesan Missioner for the Diocese of Coventry then finally, before his appointment to the Episcopate, a Canon Residentiary at Windsor.
His first wife died in 1974 and seven years later became the first Bishop to marry a divorced woman.
He was consecrated a bishop on 31 March 1977, by Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury at Westminster Abbey.
After 8 years as the suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Derby, he retired to Blewbury in 1985.