Gordon Fallows
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William Gordon Fallows KCVO (1913 – 17 August 1979) was a Church of England bishop from the broad church tradition. He served as the sixth suffragan Bishop of Pontefract and subsequently fourth diocesan Bishop of Sheffield. He is also known for having chaired the working party which produced the "Sheffield Report" used to allocate clergy numbers between the dioceses of the Church of England.[http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=64687 Church Times 10 October 2008]
Personal life and education
Fallows was born in 1913 in Barrow-in-Furness. He attended Barrow Grammar School and then St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He trained for ordination at Ripon Hall, Oxford.[http://churchleadershipfoundation.org/2008/06/gordon-fallows-of-sheffield/ Foundation for Church Leadership]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He died in office in August 1979 after suffering from cancer and Parkinson's disease.
Ministry positions
Curate in Leamington Spa
Vicar of Styvechale, Coventry
Vicar of Preston, Lancashire
Archdeacon of Lancaster
Principal of Ripon Hall, Oxford 1959 – 1968
Bishop of Pontefract 1968 – 71
Bishop of Sheffield 1971 – 79
Vice Chairman of the Church's Central Board of Finance[http://www.sheffield-diocese.org.uk/Past_Bishops_of_Sheffield.html Sheffield Diocesan Website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081025102945/http://www.sheffield-diocese.org.uk/Past_Bishops_of_Sheffield.html |date=25 October 2008 }}
Vice Chairman Church of England Pensions Board
Clerk of the Closet 1975 – 79
Fallows chaired the Clergy Deployment Commission, created to address the concentration of Church of England clergy in London and the south-east of England. In 1974 it produced the Sheffield Report recommending a formula to calculate what proportion of available clergy each diocese should receive, known as the Sheffield Number. Although at the time it was "denounced by some critics as striking at the roots of the church"[http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=64687 Church Times 10 October 2008] it remains in use as of 2008.
Biography
Gordon Fallows of Sheffield, John S. Peart-Binns, The Memoir Club {{ISBN|978-1-84104-183-4}}
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External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081025102945/http://www.sheffield-diocese.org.uk/Past_Bishops_of_Sheffield.html A Brief Synopsis Of Previous Bishops Of The See Of Sheffield]
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Category:People from Barrow-in-Furness
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Category:Deaths from cancer in the United Kingdom
Category:Deaths from Parkinson's disease in the United Kingdom