John Perry

Who is John Perry?

John Freeman Perry was an Anglican bishop.

Perry was educated at Mill Hill School, the London College of Divinity and St John's College, Nottingham. After ordination he was a curate at Christ Church, Woking after which he held a similar post at Chorleywood before becoming vicar of the area and then Rural Dean of Rickmansworth. From 1977 until 1989 he was Warden of Lee Abbey when he was ordained to the episcopate as the Bishop of Southampton. Translated to Chelmsford in 1996 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Anglia Ruskin University in 2001 and retired to Shaftesbury two years later.