Ken Gill (bishop)

{{Infobox Christian leader

| honorific-prefix = The Rt Revd

| name = Kenneth E. Gill

| honorific-suffix =

| title = Assistant Bishop of Newcastle

| diocese = Diocese of Newcastle

| term = 1980–98

| successor = Paul Richardson

| other_post = Honorary assistant bishop in Diocese of Newcastle (1999–2013)
Bishop of Central Karnataka (1972–1980)

| ordination = 1958 (deacon); 1960 (presbyter)

| consecration = 1972

| birth_date = {{birth date|1932|5|22|df=y}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|2013|2|16|1932|5|22|df=y}}

| religion = Anglican and Methodist

| parents = Fred & Elsie

| spouse = Edna Hammond (m. 1957)

| children = 3

| occupation =

| profession = Missionary, writer

| alma_mater = Hartley Victoria College, Manchester

}}

Kenneth Edward Gill (22 May 1932 – 16 February 2013) was an Anglican bishop who was the Assistant Bishop of Newcastle in the Church of England and the Diocesan Bishop of Central Karnataka in the Church of South India.

Gill was born to Fred and Elsie Gill and attended Harrogate Grammar School in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. He married Edna Hammond in 1957 and they had three children. Gill studied at the Methodist training college Hartley Victoria College, Manchester, and was ordained a deacon in the Church of South India Diocese of Mysore in 1958 and a presbyter in 1960 – that church is a united church comprising (among others) Methodists and Anglicans. He remained in that diocese until 1972.

In 1972, Gill was consecrated bishop of the Diocese of Central Karnataka of the Church of South India,K. M. George, Church of South India: life in union, 1947–1997, Jointly published by Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Christava Sahitya Samithi, Tiruvalla, 1999, pp.36-41. [https://books.google.com/books?um=1&q=] where he served until 1980, when he returned to the United Kingdom. In the Church of England, he became the first full-time ("stipendiary") Assistant Bishop of Newcastle until his 1998 retirement. He retired to Edinburgh and was licensed as an honorary assistant bishop in Newcastle diocese.

Gill died on 16 February 2013, aged 80.[http://www.newcastle.anglican.org/news-and-events/news-article.aspx?id=480 Diocese of Newcastle – Bishop Kenneth Gill RIP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305000130/http://www.newcastle.anglican.org/news-and-events/news-article.aspx?id=480 |date=5 March 2016 }} (Accessed 26 April 2014)