Thomas Chapman (bishop)
{{short description|Bishop of Colchester}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
Thomas Alfred Chapman (1867–1949Obituary-Bishop T. A. Chapman Former Suffragan Bishop Of Colchester The Times Thursday, Jun 02, 1949; pg. 7; Issue 51397; col E) was an Anglican bishop[http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk:8080/Archives/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='AA/AP/Lang/1-186/117/237-8') Consecration details]{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }} in the first half of the twentieth century.“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}
Life
Educated at Exeter College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1890”The Clergy List” London, John Phillips, 1900 and began his ecclesiastical career as a Curate at Charles Church, Plymouth. After this he was Vicar of St John, Carlisle[http://www.st-johns-carlisle.co.uk/ Church web-site] and then Rural Dean of East Bristol.[http://www.bristolinformation.co.uk/srch/srchit.asp?list=list&gdoc=rs&howmany=200 Bristol information]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In 1899 he returned to Charles[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=028-2711&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 National Archives detail] to be Rural Dean of the Three Towns and then a decade later became Rural Dean of St Peter's, Bolton[http://www.boltonparishchurch.co.uk/juneissue_files/page6.htm Incumbency details] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081118201256/http://www.boltonparishchurch.co.uk/juneissue_files/page6.htm |date=2008-11-18 }} before an 11-year spell as Bishop of Colchester.New Bishop Of Colchester. Canon Chapman Appointed. The Times Thursday, Jun 15, 1922; pg. 10; Issue 43058; col D
Notes
{{Portal|Christianity}}
{{Reflist}}
{{S-start}}
{{S-rel|en}}
{{S-bef|before=Robert Henry Whitcombe}}
{{S-ttl|title=Bishop of Colchester|years=1922 – 1933}}
{{S-aft|after=Charles Henry Ridsdale}}
{{s-end}}
{{Bishops of Colchester}}
{{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chapman, Thomas Alfred}}
Category:Clergy from Staffordshire
Category:Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford