Ian Griggs
The Rt Revd Ian Griggs MA(Cantab) | |
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Bishop of Ludlow | |
Diocese | Diocese of Hereford |
In office | 1987–1994 |
Predecessor | Mark Wood |
Successor | John Saxbee |
Other post(s) | Honorary assistant bishop in Carlisle (1994–2021) |
Orders | |
Ordination | 1954 (deacon); 1955 (priest) |
Consecration | 1987 |
Personal details | |
Born | (1928-05-17)17 May 1928 |
Died | 11 January 2021(2021-01-11) (aged 92) |
Denomination | Anglican |
Parents | Donald & Agnes |
Spouse | Patricia Vernon-Browne (m. 1953) |
Children | 3 sons (1 d.); 3 daughters |
Alma mater | Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
Ian Macdonald Griggs (17 May 1928 – 11 January 2021)[1] was the 2nd Anglican Bishop of Ludlow from 1987 until 1994.[2]
Biography
Griggs was educated at Brentwood School, Essex and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[3] He trained for ordination at Westcott House, Cambridge and was ordained deacon in 1954 and priest in 1955.[4] He served his title at St Cuthbert's, Portsmouth (1954–59).[5] He was then Bishop's Chaplain (1959–62) and Youth Chaplain (1959–64) in the Diocese of Sheffield.[6] He was then successively Vicar of St Cuthbert's, Firvale (1964–71), St Mary and All Saints' Church, Kidderminster (1971-82) and Team Rector of Kidderminster (1982–84) before being collated as Archdeacon of Ludlow (1984–87) (as well as Priest-in-Charge of Tenbury (1984–87)) and then Bishop of Ludlow.[7] He was consecrated a bishop on 22 July 1987, by Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Southwark Cathedral.[8] From 1984 to 1994 he was also Prebendary of Hereford.[9] After retiring from the Bishopric of Ludlow, he settled at Patterdale in the Lake District and served from 1994 as honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Carlisle.[10]
References
- ^ ‘GRIGGS, Rt Rev. Ian Macdonald’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011 [1], accessed 5 July 2012
- ^ Debrett's People of Today 1992 (London, Debrett's) ISBN 1-870520-09-2)
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th ed., p. 382.
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th ed., p. 382.
- ^ Church web-site
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th ed., p. 382.
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory (Lambeth: Church House ISBN 0-7151-8088-6)
- ^ "picture caption". Church Times. No. 6494. 31 July 1987. p. 2. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 1 June 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ "Church Times: Deaths, 15 January 2021". Retrieved 17 January 2021.
- ^ "Ian Macdonald Griggs". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
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Preceded by Mark Wood | Bishop of Ludlow 1987–1994 | Succeeded by |
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(Shropshire)
- William
- Peter le Kauf
- Odo
- Gilbert Foliot
- Hugh Foliot
- Nicholas de Aquila
- Simon de Edenbridge
- Peter d'Aigueblanche
- John Foliot
- James d'Aigueblanche
- Hervey de Boreham
- Richard de Swinfield
- James d'Aigueblanche (2nd term)
- Adam de Fileby
- John de Bestan
- John de Swinfield
- Roger de Canterbury
- Philip Talbot
(Shropshire)
- John de Rosse
- William le Mercer de Rosse
- Richard de Sydenhale
- Henry de Shipton
- William de Borstall
- Richard Nowell
- John Hoare
- John Welles
- John Hereford
- John Loveney
- John Merbury
- William Leche
- Thomas Yone
- Robert Jeffry
- Thomas Morton
- John Martyn
- William Webbe
- Arthur Stafford
- John Wardroper
- William Gobard
- Henry Martyn
- Humphrey Ogle
- Richard Sparcheford
(Shropshire)
- Richard Smythe
- Robert Grensill
- Robert Greenwiche
- Morgan Godwin
- Thomas Cooke
- Stephen Philips
- Francis Wheeler
- Adam Ottley
- Robert Comyn
- Richard Crosse
- Samuel Croxall
- Robert Breton
- Egerton Leigh
- John Harley
- Robert Clive
- Joseph Plymley (Corbett)
- William Vickers
- William Waring (became Archdeacon of Ludlow)
- William Waring (previously Archdeacon of Shropshire)
- George Maddison
- Henry Bather
- Algernon Oldham
- Alfred Lilley
- Edwin Bartleet
- Henry Dixon
- Herbert Whately
- Hugh Bevan
- John Lewis
- Andrew Woodhouse
- Mark Wood (Bishop of Ludlow)
- Ian Griggs
- Richard Lewis
- John Saxbee (Bishop of Ludlow)
- Michael Hooper (Bishop of Ludlow)
- Alistair Magowan (Bishop of Ludlow)
- Fiona Gibson