John Taylor (bishop of Winchester)

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John Taylor
CMS (1963–1974)
Personal details
Born(1914-09-11)11 September 1914
Died30 January 2001(2001-01-30) (aged 86)
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglican
ParentsJohn Taylor & Margaret Irene née Garrett
SpousePeggy née Wright (m. 1940)
Childrenthree
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Ordination history
History
Diaconal ordination
Ordained byArthur Winnington-Ingram Edit this on Wikidata
Date18 December 1938 Edit this on Wikidata
PlaceSt Paul's Cathedral Edit this on Wikidata
Priestly ordination
Ordained byGuy Smith Edit this on Wikidata
Date29 September 1939 Edit this on Wikidata
PlaceSt Paul's Cathedral Edit this on Wikidata
Episcopal consecration
Consecrated byDonald Coggan Edit this on Wikidata
Date31 January 1975 Edit this on Wikidata
PlaceWestminster Abbey Edit this on Wikidata

John Vernon Taylor (11 September 1914 – 30 January 2001) was an English bishop and theologian who was the Bishop of Winchester from 1974 to 1985.

Education and family

Taylor was born in

Institute of Education.[1]

His father was later Bishop of Sodor and Man; his mother was Margaret Irene née Garrett. Taylor married Margaret (Peggy) Wright on 5 October 1940, and they had three children.[2]

Priestly ministry

He was ordained in the

All Souls, Langham Place
, and then from 1940 to 1943 as curate in St Helen's the Diocese of Liverpool). He then felt drawn to overseas missionary work; unable to do so immediately because of wartime travel restrictions, he obtained a teaching qualification at London University.

In 1945, with the ending of World War II, he moved to

Church Missionary Society
, and in 1963 he succeeded Max Warren as its General Secretary, remaining in post until 1974.

Episcopal ministry

His nomination to the See of Winchester was announced 14 August 1974,

All Souls, Langham Place
, he was nevertheless a liberal evangelical rather than a conservative one. When first consecrated, he initially caused some amusement by refusing to wear a mitre and ordering that it be carried in front of him on a cushion in processions. After that one occasion he reverted to custom and wore it.

Bibliography

The most notable of his books were The Go-Between God (1972) and The Christlike God (1992), both of which remain in print. Enough is enough (1975) was an early book of the environmentalist movement, making the theological case for resisting consumerism and looking after our planet.

  • The Primal Vision: Christian Presence amid African Religion (London: SCM 1963; New Edition, SCM Classics 2001)
  • The Go-Between God: The Holy Spirit and the Christian Mission (London: SCM 1972; New Edition, SCM Classics 2002).
  • For All the World (1966)
  • Enough is enough (London: SCM: 1975)
  • The Growth of the Church in Buganda: An Attempt at Understanding (1980)
  • Weep Not for Me: Meditations on the Cross and the Resurrection (1986)
  • The Christlike God (London: SCM 1992).
  • Bishops on the Bible: Eight Bishops on the Role and Relevance of the Bible Today (1994)
  • A matter of life and death (London: SCM 1986)
  • Kingdom Come (1989)
  • A Christmas Sequence and Other Poems (1989)

Posthumous collections:

  • The Easter God and his Easter People (2003)
  • The Incarnate God (2006)

Biographical:

  • Poet, Priest and Prophet by David Wood.

Notes

  1. ^ Who Was Who erroneously records that he was ordained deacon in 1956 and priest in 1957, whereas both Crockford's and the Church Times record 1938 and 1939, and these are consistent with his first curacy: 1938–1940.

References

External links

Obituaries:

Christian Mission with John V. Taylor:

Church of England titles
Preceded by Bishop of Winchester
1975–1985
Succeeded by