John Went

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{{Infobox Christian leader

| honorific-prefix =

| name = John Went

| honorific-suffix =

| title = former Bishop of Tewkesbury

| church = Church of England

| diocese = Diocese of Gloucester

| enthroned = 1996

| term_end = 2 March 2013 (retired){{cite press release |url=http://gloucester.anglican.org/news/press-releases/press-releases-1369.php |publisher=Gloucester Diocese |title=Bishop of Tewkesbury to retire in March |accessdate=14 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903093550/http://gloucester.anglican.org/news/press-releases/press-releases-1369.php |archivedate=3 September 2014 }}[https://twitter.com/BBCGlos/status/307968782142435328] (Accessed 4 March 2013)

| predecessor = Jeremy Walsh

| successor = Martyn Snow

| ordination = 29 September 1969 (deacon); 29 September 1970 (priest)

| ordained_by = Robert Stopford (deacon); Graham Leonard (priest)

| consecration = 25 January 1996

| consecrated_by = George Carey

| other_post = Archdeacon of Surrey (1989–1996)

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|3|11|df=y}}

| nationality = British

| religion = Anglican

| spouse = Rosemary Dunn (m. 1968)

| alma_mater = Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

}}

{{Portal|Christianity}}John Stewart Went (born 11 March 1944) was the Anglican Bishop of Tewkesbury, the suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Gloucester, from 25 January 1996 until 2 March 2013.

He was educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.Who's Who 1992 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3514-2}} He was made deacon at Michaelmas 1969 (29 September), by Robert Stopford, Bishop of London, at St Paul's Cathedral,{{Church Times | title = Michaelmas Ordinations | archive = 1969_10_03_015 | issue = 5564 | date = 3 October 1969 | page = 15 | accessed = 24 May 2019 }} and ordained priest the Michaelmas following (29 September 1970), by Graham Leonard, Bishop of Willesden, at St Mary's, Willesden.{{Church Times | title = Ordinations | archive = 1970_10_02_015 | issue = 5616 | date = 2 October 1970 | page = 15 | accessed = 24 May 2019 }} Went married Rosemary Dunn in 1968 before embarking on a clerical career with a curacy in Northwood, LondonDebrett's People of Today: Ed Ellis, P (1992, London, Debtrett's) p 1621 {{ISBN|1-870520-09-2}}) followed by an incumbency at Margate. Vice-principal of Wycliffe Hall, OxfordCrockfords, (London, Church House 1995) {{ISBN|0-7151-8088-6}} from 1983 until 1989 when he became Archdeacon of Surrey. In 1996 he became the suffragan Bishop of Tewkesbury;Crockfords, (London, Church House 1995) online [http://www.crockford.org.uk/searchresults.asp?id=58] he was consecrated a bishop on 25 January 1996{{Church Times | title = New bishop for Gloucestershire | archive = 1995_08_04_002 | issue = 6912 | date = 4 August 1995 | page = 2 | accessed = 24 May 2019 }} by George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.[https://www.diomedia.com/stock-photo-the-most-rev-and-rt-hon-dr-george-carey-archbishop-of-canterbury-with-left-the-rev-ian-brackley-image17532994.html] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20010116195500/http://guildford.anglican.org/html/suffragan_bishop_of_dorking.html]