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Bishop of Tewkesbury; British Anglican bishop
A.K.A.
John Stewart Went
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Male
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Birth:
11 March 1944
The details
Biography
Introduction
This article is about the bishop. For the Protestant martyr see John Went (martyr).
John Stewart Went (born 11 March 1944) was the Anglican Bishop of Tewkesbury from 1996 until 2 March 2013. He was educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Went married Rosemary Dunn in 1968 before embarking on a clerical career with a curacy in Northwood, London followed by an incumbency at Margate. Vice-principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford from 1983 until 1989 when he became Archdeacon of Surrey. In 1996 he became the suffragan Bishop of Tewkesbury.
Styles
- The Reverend John Went (c. 1968–1989)
- The Venerable John Went (1989–1996)
- The Right Reverend John Went (1996–present)