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Kenneth Thompson (bishop)

British bishop

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMar 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ6390745 ↗
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Kenneth George Thompson (died 1975) was a bishop in the Church of England.

Education

Career

From 1940 to 1944 he was a chaplain to the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and vicar of Kneesal and Ossington in Nottinghamshire. From 1944 to 1965 he was vicar of St Mary Magdelene, Hucknall. From 1954 he was a canon of Southwell Minster. In 1962 he was appointed Archdeacon of Newark and a chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II.

In 1965 he was appointed Bishop of Sherwood.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kenneth Thompson (bishop)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.