Bill Down
Assistant Bishop of Leicester; Bishop of Bermuda
William John Denbigh Down (15 July 1934 – 4 February 2025) was a British cleric who was the ninth Bishop of Bermuda and later the Assistant Bishop of Leicester.
Biography
Educated at St John's College, Cambridge, Down was ordained in 1960. His first post was as a curate at St Paul's Church, Salisbury, after which he was secretary to the Missions to Seaman, chaplain of St Michael Paternoster Royal, and honorary chaplain to the Carmen's Company until his ordination to the episcopate in 1990. He returned to England as the Assistant Bishop of Leicester in 1995 before retiring in 2001. He was ultimately honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford, where he settled at Witney.
Down died on 4 February 2025, at the age of 90.
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