Peter Nott

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Honorary assistant bishop in Oxford (1999–2018)
Bishop of Taunton
1977–1985
Orders
Consecration1977
Personal details
Born(1933-12-30)30 December 1933
Died20 August 2018(2018-08-20) (aged 84)
DenominationAnglican
Alma materFitzwilliam College, Cambridge

Peter John Nott (30 December 1933 – 20 August 2018) was an English

Anglican bishop:[1] from 1985 to 1999, he served as Bishop of Norwich.[2]

Nott was educated at Bristol Grammar School, Dulwich College and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.[3] He began his ordained ministry as a curate at Harpenden after which he was chaplain at Fitzwilliam College and then Rector of Beaconsfield.[4] In 1977 he was appointed the suffragan Bishop of Taunton;[5] he was ordained a bishop on 18 October 1977, by Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral.[6] He was translated to be the Bishop of Norwich[7] upon the confirmation of his election on 12 November 1985.[8] He retired in 1999 but continued to serve as an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford.

References

  1. ^ Eastern Daily Press
  2. Daily Telegraph
    p29 (obituaries) Issue no 50,788, dated Wednesday 22 August 2018
  3. ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
  4. ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0
  5. ^ "New Bishop of Taunton", The Times, 1 June 1977, p19.
  6. ISSN 0009-658X
    . Retrieved 22 May 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
  7. ^ The Times, 21 August 1985, p14, "Rural churchman is new bishop"
  8. ISSN 0009-658X
    . Retrieved 22 February 2016 – via UK Press Online archives.


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