Gordon Bates
Religious Leader
1934 –
Who is Gordon Bates?
Gordon Bates was the eighth Bishop of Whitby.
Bates received his ecclesiastical education at Kelham Theological College, being ordained deacon in 1958 and priest 1959. After a Curacy at Eltham he served as a Youth Chaplain in, firstly, the Gloucester and then the Liverpool Dioceses. From 1965 he began a long association with Liverpool Cathedral, becoming in time a Canon Residentiary, Precentor and finally Director of Ordinands. From 1983 he was a Suffragan Bishop, a post he held for 16 years. He retired to Carnforth and is now an Honorary Assistant Bishop within the Carlisle Diocese. Towards the end of his Episcopate he stated:
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