POPE FRANCIS died on Easter Monday, aged 88.
OTHER deaths noted this year among the episcopate included those of Dr Keith Rayner, a former Primate of Australia; the Rt Revd David Vungai, a former Archbishop of Melenesia and Governor General of the Solomon Islands; the Rt Revd Roger Sainsbury, a former Bishop of Barking; the Rt Revd Hewlett Thompson, a former Bishop of Willesden and of Exeter, and chair of the Community and Race Relations Unit for the British Council of Churches; Dr Anthony Russell, a former Bishop of Dorchester and of Ely; the Most Revd David Crawley, a former Metropolitan Archbishop of Kootenay and of British Columbia and Yukon; the Rt Revd Robert Halliday, a former Bishop of Brechin; Dr Gregor Duncan, a former Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway; the Rt Revd David Wilcox, a former Bishop of Dorking.
MEMBERS of the clergy whose deaths were recorded included Canon John Paul Hoskins, Precentor of Worcester Cathedral; the Revd Lynn Chapman, Rector of Hethersett with Canteloff with Little and Great Melton; the Revd John Baines, Vicar of Longnor, Quarnford, Sheen and Warslow with Elkstone; the Revd Richard Hare, Priest-in-Charge of Bridlington and Barmston with Fraisthorpe; the Revd Richard Bradshaw, Team Rector in the Monkwearmouth Team Ministry, and Area Dean of Wearmouth; the Revd David Sweeting, Vicar of the Glen Group; the Revd George Spencer, Vicar of Ravensthorpe and Thornhill Lees with Savile Town; the Revd David Anderton, Vicar of St James’s, Collier Row, and Havering-atte-Bower, and Priest-in-Charge of Noak Hill; the Revd Ronald Corp, NSM of St Alban the Martyr, Holborn, composer and conductor; the Revd Alistair Marcus Forster, Priest-in-Charge of Axbridge with Shipham and Rowberrow; Canon Jim Garrard, Precentor of Ely Cathedral.
The Revd Philip Hacking, a prominent Evangelical voice from the Northern Province; the Revd Don Cupitt, priest and philosopher; the Revd Andrew Macintosh, a former Dean of St John’s College, Cambridge; Canon Bill Wright, a founding father of industrial mission in the C of E; the Ven. Michael Brotherton, a former Archdeacon
of Chichester; the Ven. Christopher Laurence, a former Archdeacon of Lindsey; the Revd Morgan Llewellyn, a former Army colonel; the Ven. Christopher Hawthorn, a former Archdeacon of Cleveland; the Ven. Robert Coogan, a former Archdeacon of Hampstead.
The Ven. Geoffrey Johnston, a former Archdeacon of Gibraltar; the Revd Dr Vincent Strudwick, former member of SSM, theologian, and church historian; the Revd Zolile Mbali, theologian and teacher; the Very Revd the Hon. Hugh Dickinson, a former Dean of Salisbury; the Revd Dr Donald Gray, church historian and a former Speaker’s Chaplain; Canon Ivan Bailey, a former religious adviser to Anglia Television; the Revd Sarah Chapman, a former Chaplain of the Living Well, in Canterbury diocese; the Very Revd Kenneth Riley, a former Dean of Manchester; Canon Malory Makower, who focused on the training of NSMs; the Revd Raymond Simpson, founder of the Community of Aidan and Hilda; the Revd Dr Richard Turnbull, a former Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford; the Ven. Malcolm Lesiter, a former Archdeacon of Bedford; the Revd Professor Anne Bayley, surgeon, scientist, and AIDS campaigner.
CLIVE BARDA PHOTOGRAPHYMartin NearyDEATHS among the laity in 2025 included those of Dr Ted Harrison, writer, broadcaster, and artist; Dr John Wijngaards, the founder of the Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research; Clive Billenness, a General Synod member; Geoffrey Tattersall KC, a former chair of the General Synod and diocesan chancellor; Simon Lindley, a former organist of Leeds Parish Church and composer; the organ builder John Norman; the organist Nicolas Kynaston; Garry Humphreys, an arts reviewer for the Church Times; the American Old Testament scholar Professor Walter Brueggemann; the televangelist Jimmy Swaggart; Llywela Harris, a former Warden of the Royal School of Church Music; Sheila Cameron KC, a former Dean of the Arches; Kathy Galloway, a former leader of the Iona Community; John Morgan, the typographer who designed Common Worship; Luci Shaw, a Christian poet and essayist; Jack Hemmings, co-founder of MAF; Professor Richard Hays, NT scholar.
Martin Neary, a former Director of Music of Westminster Abbey; Dame Patricia Routledge, actress; Karen McFarlane Holtkamp, a US manager for church choirs and organists; Sir Andreas Whittam Smith, a former First Church Estates Commissioner; Ian Marchant, writer and broadcaster.
Sister Giovanna FSJM, the last surviving member of the Franciscan Servants of Jesus and Mary.
THE death also occurred of Bishop Medardo Gómez, the first bishop of the Salvadoran Lutheran Church.
