Ross Hook

{{Short description|Anglican bishop}}

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Ross Sydney Hook {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MC}} (19 February 1917 – 26 June 1996) was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.{{cite news |title=Obituary: The Right Rev Ross Hook |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-the-right-rev-ross-hook-1327231.html |accessdate=11 February 2020 |work=The Independent |date=4 July 1996 |language=en}}

Educated at Christ's Hospital{{Who's Who | title=Hook, Ross Sydney | id = U179299 | type = was | volume = 1920–2016 | edition = April 2014 online | access-date = 6 January 2017 }} and Peterhouse, Cambridge, he was made a deacon on Trinity Sunday 1941 (8 June) by Cyril Garbett, Bishop of Winchester,{{Church Times | title = Trinity ordinations | archive = 1941_06_20_360 | issue = 4091 | date = 20 June 1941 | page = 360 | accessed = 10 October 2019 }} and ordained a priest the following Trinity Sunday (31 May 1942) by Mervyn Haigh, Bishop of Winchester — both times at Winchester Cathedral.{{Church Times | title = Ordinations at Trinity | archive = 1942_06_12_336 | issue = 4142 | date = 12 June 1942 | page = 336 | accessed = 10 October 2019 }} After Second World War service in the RNVR he was appointed Chaplain of Ridley Hall, Cambridge. From here he rose rapidly in the Church hierarchy being successively Vicar of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Rural Dean of Chelsea and a Canon Residentiary at Rochester Cathedral before being ordained to the episcopateThe Times, Thursday, 9 December 1965; p. 3; Issue 56512; col E "New Bishop of Grantham consecrated" as Bishop of Grantham in 1965. He was consecrated a bishop on 30 November 1965 by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.{{Church Times | title = picture caption | archive = 1965_12_03_001 | issue = 5364 | date = 3 December 1965 | page = 1 | accessed = 10 October 2019 }} He was translated to become Bishop of Bradford seven years later.The Times, Wednesday, 28 June 1972; p. 16; Issue 58516; col A "New Bishop of Bradford" Following his time in Bradford, he served at Lambeth Palace (under Robert Runcie) as Chief of Staff to the Archbishop of Canterbury (1980–1984).