Norman Lang (bishop)

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Norman MacLeod Lang (1875–1956)The Times, Monday, May 07, 1956; pg. 10; Issue 53524; col C Obituary The Rt Rev K.M. Lang was the third Bishop suffragan of Leicester from 1913New Bishop of Leicester announced The Times Saturday, Dec 21, 1912; pg. 11; Issue 40088; col E until 1927.

Lang's father, John Marshall Lang, was a Church of Scotland minister and some-time Moderator; among Norman's brothers were Cosmo, Archbishop of YorkThe Times, Friday, Jan 07, 1921; pg. 12; Issue 42612; col E The Late Mrs Lang. Mother of The Archbishop of York and then of Canterbury;[http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/hallaton/ahistoryofhallatonwarmemorial.html Leicester villages] and Marshall, minister and some-time Moderator. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford,{{Who's Who |id=U239639 |title=Lang, Norman Macleod}} and after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon,[http://anglicanhistory.org/england/cuddesdon/record1904/03.html Anglican History] he was made deacon on Trinity Sunday 1900 (10 June){{Church Times | title = The Trinity Ordinations | archive = 1900_06_15_701 | issue = 1951 | date = 15 June 1900 | page = 701 | accessed = 9 March 2020 }} and ordained priest on St Thomas' Day 1902 (21 December) — both times by Randall Davidson, Bishop of Winchester, at Winchester Cathedral.{{Church Times | title = The Advent Ordinations | archive = 1902_01_03_023 | issue = 2032 | date = 3 January 1902 | page = 23 | accessed = 9 March 2020 }} His first post was as a Minor Canon at Bloemfontein Cathedral.{{cite book | last=Malden Richard (ed) | author-link= | title= Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn) | location= London | publisher= The Field Press| pages=906| year=1920 | isbn=}} Returning to England he was Vicar of St Martin's, LeicesterThe Times, Friday, Jun 11, 1909; pg. 9; Issue 38983; col C Ecclesiastical Intelligence before his appointment to the episcopate. He was consecrated a bishop on Ascension Day (1 May) by Randall Davidson, by then Archbishop of Canterbury, at Southwark Cathedral.{{Church Times | title = Church News. Personal. | archive = 1913_03_28_430 | issue = 2618 | date = 28 March 1913 | page = 460 | accessed = 9 March 2020 }}

Serving as Bishop suffragan of Leicester, he held both the Archdeaconry of Northampton and a residentiary canonry at Peterborough Cathedral with his See from 1919 until his resigned the See, due to the erection in 1926 of the new Diocese of Leicester. He continued as an Assistant Bishop of Peterborough — effectively in the same role, without a title — until his retirement in 1945. Alongside that post and his canonry, he remained Archdeacon of Northampton until 1936, after which he became Archdeacon of Oakham.The Times, Thursday, May 28, 1936; pg. 22; Issue 47386; col F Ecclesiastical News The Archdeaconry Of Oakham[http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk:8080/Archives/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=RefNo=='Lang/1-186/145/345-71%20passim'&dsqCmd=Show.tcl National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives]{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}The Times, Friday, Jan 26, 1945; pg. 7; Issue 50051; col C Ecclesiastical News Bishop Lang To Resign

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