Andy Radford

{{short description|Anglican Evangelical bishop}}

{{Other people|Andrew Radford|Andrew Radford (disambiguation){{!}}Andrew Radford}}

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{{Infobox Christian leader

| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend

| name = Andy Radford

| title = Bishop of Taunton

| image = Andy Radford.jpg

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| church = Church of England

| diocese = Diocese of Bath and Wells

| term = 3 December 1998–21 May 2006 (died in office)

| predecessor = Will Stewart

| successor = Peter Maurice

| other_post = Development and Training Officer, national {{nowrap|Comms Unit}} {{nowrap|(1993–1998)}}
Archbishops' Adviser for Bishops' Ministry (1998)

| ordination = 1974 (deacon); 1975 (priest)

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| consecration = 3 December 1998

| consecrated_by = George Carey

| birth_date = {{birth date|1944|1|26|df=y}}

| birth_place = Hengrove, Bristol, {{nowrap|United Kingdom}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|2006|5|21|1944|1|26|df=y}}

| death_place = Gloucester, Glos., UK

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| nationality = British

| religion = Anglican

| residence =

| parents = John (priest & canon)

| spouse = {{marriage|Christine née Davis|1969}}

| children = 2 daughters

| occupation =

| profession = religious broadcaster

| education =

| alma_mater = Trinity College, Bristol

}}

Andrew John "Andy" Radford[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1519203/The-Right-Reverend-Andrew-Radford.html The Telegraph — Obituaries — Andrew Radford (24 May 2006)] (Accessed 19 January 2017){{Church Times | title = obituary: Andrew Radford | url = https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2006/9-june/gazette/the-rt-revd-andrew-radford | issue = 7474 | date = 9 June 2006 | page = 32 | accessed = 19 January 2017 }} 26 January 1944{{snd}}21 May 2006){{Who's Who | title=Radford, Andrew John | id = U37040 | type = was | volume = 1920–2016 | edition = April 2014 online | access-date = 22 January 2017 }} was an Anglican Evangelical bishop and religious broadcaster. He served the Church of England as Bishop of Taunton from 1998 until his death eight years later.[http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page10135.asp 10 Downing Street — Nomination of the Suffragan See of Taunton] {{webarchive |url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20070506145332/http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page10135.asp |date=6 May 2007 }}

Radford was born at Hengrove, where his father was curate; they later lived in Kingswood, Bristol, where his father, John (later a canon),[https://www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/article/the-right-rev-andrew-radford-tcffg5qgrb3 The Times obituary] (Accessed 24 January 2017 was Vicar, and Andy attended Kingswood Grammar School. After school, he served local government and trained as an architect and surveyor. In 1972, he entered Trinity College, Bristol, to train for the ministry; ordainedCrockford's Clerical Directory 1975/1976 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} a deacon on 29 September 1974{{Church Times | title = Michaelmas ordinations | archive = 1974_10_04_015 | issue = 5825 | date = 4 October 1974 | page = 15 | accessed = 24 January 2017 }} and a priest on 21 September 1975 (both times by Oliver Tomkins, Bishop of Bristol, in Bristol Cathedral),{{Church Times | title = September ordinations | archive = 1975_09_26_015 | issue = 5876 | date = 26 September 1975 | page = 15 | accessed = 24 January 2017 }} his career began with a curacy at Shirehampton after which he was a producer of Religious programmes for the BBC.

Subsequently Vicar of St Barnabas with Englishcombe, Bath, Somerset (1980–1985), then Diocese of Gloucester Communications Officer (1985–1993) and an honorary canon of Gloucester Cathedral (1991–1998), then Development and Training Officer at the national Communications Unit, Church House, Westminster (1993–1998). He served briefly as the Archbishops' Adviser for Bishops' Ministry in 1998 before his appointment that year to serve the Diocese of Bath and Wells as suffragan Bishop of Taunton. He was ordained and consecrated a bishop on 3 December 1998,{{Church Times | title = Bishops' counsellor takes his own advice | archive = 1998_07_31_005 | issue = 7068 | date = 31 July 1998 | page = 5 | accessed = 24 January 2017 }} by George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Southwark Cathedral.{{Church Times | title = Letters to the Editor — Conduct at PEV consecration | archive = 1998_12_11_009 | issue = 7087 | date = 11 December 1998 | page = 9 | accessed = 24 January 2017 }} He died of brain cancer in Gloucester and was survived by Christine née Davis, whom he had married in 1969, and their two daughters and two grandchildren.