Leslie Owen
Leslie Owen | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Lincoln | |
| Church | Church of England |
| Diocese | Diocese of Lincoln |
| In office | 1946–1947 |
| Predecessor | Aylmer Skelton |
| Successor | Maurice Harland |
| Other post(s) | Archdeacon of Auckland (1936–39) Bishop of Jarrow (1939–1944) Bishop of Maidstone (1944–1946) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1912 (priest) |
| Consecration | 1939 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1886 |
| Died | 3 March 1947 |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
Leslie Owen (1886–1947) was an
Anglican bishop
.
Owen was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood. He studied at St John's College, Cambridge and Ely Theological College.[1]
He was
episcopate as Bishop of Jarrow three years later.[3] While at Jarrow, he conducted the wedding of his secretary to Michael Ramsay, future Archbishop of Canterbury.[4]
Owen was a highly regarded scholar and was considered for the vacant diocesan bishoprics at Southwell (1941),[5] Blackburn[6] and Lincoln (1942)[7] but he was not appointed. Instead, Archbishop Temple arranged for his translation to another suffragan bishopric, Maidstone, in 1943 with special responsibility for supporting Chaplains and for making arrangements for post-War ordination candidates who had fought in the War.[8] The following year, Owen was preaching in the Guards Chapel in London when it was hit by a flying bomb.[9] He was physically unhurt but badly shaken by the experience. Nevertheless, he was considered for the diocesan sees of Salisbury[10] and Lincoln in 1946[11] and was appointed to Lincoln. Although he had been assured by his doctors of his fitness for the post, he fell ill and died in March 1947, aged 60. "He did not make public appearances, or write books, or attract attention to himself. It required a flying bomb to make him for a moment a head-line figure".[12]
References
- ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
- ^ Media Card Museum of Army Chaplaincy
- ^ The Times, 7 June 1939; p19, "Ecclesiastical News Church Appointments New Bishop of Jarrow"
- ^ 'Michael Ramsay'by Owen Chadwick,Oxford,p59
- ^ TNA PREM5/339
- ^ TNA PREM5/259
- ^ TNA PREM5/290
- ^ The Times 15.12.1943
- ^ The Times 3.3.1944
- ^ TNA PREM5/346
- ^ TNA PREM5/294
- ^ Lincoln Diocesan Magazine p343
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