Geoffrey Graham Dow (born 4 July 1942) was the Anglican Bishop of Carlisle from 2000-2009, the 66th holder of the office. He is a well-known Evangelical.
Born in 1942, in Edmonton, London, he was educated at St Albans School and The Queen's College, Oxford.
Before his arrival in Carlisle, Dow was the vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Coventry prior to his appointment as Bishop of Willesden, (a suffragan bishopric in the Diocese of London) in 1992.
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Geoffrey Graham Dow (born 4 July 1942) was the Anglican Bishop of Carlisle from 2000-2009, the 66th holder of the office. He is a well-known Evangelical.
Born in 1942, in Edmonton, London, he was educated at St Albans School and The Queen's College, Oxford.
Before his arrival in Carlisle, Dow was the vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Coventry prior to his appointment as Bishop of Willesden, (a suffragan bishopric in the Diocese of London) in 1992.
Dow was made the Bishop of Carlisle in 2000 and retired from this position at the end of April 2009.
Dow was one of the "rebel" bishops who signed a letter against Rowan Williams's appointment of the Reverend Jeffrey John as Bishop of Reading in 2003. The others were the Bishops of Bradford, Chester, Chichester, Exeter, Liverpool, Rochester, Southwell and Winchester.
In 2005, Dow attracted media attention when he said that a stone in Carlisle inscribed with a 16th century curse should be removed. The curse was pronounced on the Border Reivers by...
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