David Konstant
Catholic bishop (1930-2016)
David Every Konstant (16 June 1930 – 9 October 2016) was an English prelate and the Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds, England. Konstant had served as the eighth Roman Catholic Bishop of Leeds, being succeeded by Arthur Roche and, before that, as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Westminster, England's principal Catholic diocese and as Titular Bishop of Betagbarar.
Early life and ministry
David Konstant was born in London to parents Antoine Konstant and Dulcie Marion Beresford Konstant (née Leggatt). He studied at Christ's College, Cambridge and graduated BA from the University of Cambridge, being later made a MA of Cambridge. In these years he also gained a PGCE from the University of London's Institute of Education. Konstant went on to study for the priesthood at St Edmund's College, Ware, leading to his ordination as a priest on 12 June 1954 by Cardinal Bernard Griffin.
Konstant was destined by his superiors to work as a teacher in Catholic schools. In 1954, he was appointed to Cambridge Technical College & School of Arts, later to become part of Anglia Ruskin University. A year later, in 1955, Konstant was appointed to Christ's College, Cambridge, and, in 1958, the University of London and its Institute of Education, the college and university that he himself had frequented. In the 1960s he was appointed assistant headmaster at the Cardinal Vaughan Grammar School for Boys, West Kensington, before becoming in 1966 a diocesan adviser on religious education.
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