Geoffrey Rowell

Douglas Geoffrey Rowell (born 13 February 1943) is a retired Anglican bishop, having served as the third Bishop in Europe until his retirement on 8 November 2013.^[1] Rowell is currently an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Chichester.

Education

Rowell was educated at Winchester College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He holds a PhD and MA from Cambridge, and was incorporated DPhil and MA, along with his DD from Oxford.^[2]

Career

Since 1999, Rowell has been an episcopal patron of Project Canterbury, an online archive of Anglican texts.

Rowell was consecrated as a bishop by George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 2 February 1994 at St Paul's Cathedral,^[3] becoming Bishop suffragan of Basingstoke in the Diocese of Winchester.

Rowell was commissioned as Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe (often called "Bishop in Europe") on 18 October 2001 at St Margaret's, Westminster, and enthroned in the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar, on 1 November 2001.

At the November 2012 meeting of the General Synod of the Church of England, Rowell was one of the three members of the House of Bishops who voted against the ordination of women as bishops.^[4]

Controversy

In January 2007, Rowell suspended the chaplain of Istanbul, Ian Sherwood, and the entire chaplaincy council.^[5]

Writings

Rowell has authored or co-authored the following:

• Love's Redeeming Work: The Anglican Quest for Holiness. OUP Oxford. 2003. ISBN 978-0-19-150087-9.  with Kenneth Stevenson and Rowan Williams
• The Vision Glorious: Themes and Personalities of the Catholic Revival in Anglicanism. Clarendon Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-19-826332-6. 
• Come, Lord Jesus!: Daily Readings for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. Morehouse. 2003. ISBN 978-0-8192-1964-0.  with Julien Chilcott-Monk
• The English religious tradition and the genius of Anglicanism. Ikon. 1992. ISBN 978-1-871805-02-4. 

Outline of career

• Ordained priest in the Church of England, 1969
• Chaplain of Keble College, Oxford, 1971–1994
• Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Leicester, 1979–1990
• Canon of Chichester Cathedral, 1981
• Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester, 1991–1993
• Suffragan Bishop of Basingstoke, 1994–2001
• Bishop in Europe, 2001–2013

Styles

• The Reverend Geoffrey Rowell (1968–1981)
• The Reverend Canon Geoffrey Rowell (1981–1994)
• The Right Reverend Geoffrey Rowell (1994–present)

References

Further reading

• Who's Who, 2006 (A. & C. Black, London, 2006)

External links

• Anglican Church in Europe website at the Wayback Machine (archived April 18, 2012)
• Anglicans in Istanbul, Letter to "the Times", 2 February 2007(subscription required)