John Hare (bishop)

John Tyrrell Holmes Hare (24 November 1912 – 25 October 1976) was Bishop of Bedford from 1968 to 1977.

He was educated at Brighton College ^[1] and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. After a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon he was ordained in 1937 and began his career with a curacy at St Francis of Assisi, West Bromwich ^[2] followed by a period as Vicar of St Matthias, Colindale. In 1951 he began a long association with the Bedford area, being successively Rural Dean, Archdeacon of Bedford and then Suffragan Bishop. He died in post on 25 October 1976.^[3]

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Church of England titles
Preceded by Albert John Trillo	Bishop of Bedford 1968–1976	Succeeded by Andrew Alexander Kenny Graham

v t e Bishops of Bedford
John Hodgkins Walsham How Robert Billing Lumsden Barkway Aylmer Skelton Thomas Wood Campbell MacInnes Basil Guy John Trillo John Hare Alec Graham David Farmbrough John Richardson Richard Inwood Richard Atkinson

v t e Diocese of St Albans
St Albans Cathedral St Mary's Church, Luton Abbey Gate House, St Albans Holywell Lodge, St Albans
Office holders	Alan Smith, Bishop of St Albans Richard Atkinson, Bishop suffragan of Bedford Jane Mainwaring, Bishop suffragan of Hertford AEO: Bishop suffragan of Richborough (vacant) & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Jo Kelly-Moore, Dean of St Albans Janet Mackenzie, Archdeacon of Hertford Dave Middlebrook, Archdeacon of Bedford Charles Hudson, Archdeacon of St Albans
Historic offices	Bishops suffragan of Colchester and of Barking, Archdeacons of Colchester and of Essex (all moved to Diocese of Chelmsford, 1914)

v t e Archdeacons of Bedford
High Medieval	Osbert Ralph Hugh Nicholas Alan Richard Geoffrey Alexander of Elstow John de Houton Amaury of Buckden John de Dyham John Crakehall Peter de Audeham John de Maidenstan Nicholas de Hegham Richard de Bradewell John Hook
Late Medieval	Roger Rothwell/Rowell Thomas Neville Edmund London John Daubeny Philip Daubeny Thomas Cumpton John Irtlingburgh Thomas Stowe William Aghton Richard Caudray William Derby Robert Thornton Thomas Salisbury John Rudying John Collinson Henry Sharp Thomas Hutton
Early modern	William Cosyn John Chambre Gilbert Bourne John Pope Michael Dunning Richard Barber William Todd John Robinson Roger Parker George Eland John Hacket Francis Wilford Theophilus Dillingham John Skelton Thomas Frank John Dudley John Taylor Charles Jenner Richard Grey Hadley Cox William Done Richard Shepherd
Late modern	Samuel Vince Henry Bonney Henry Tattam Henry Rose Frederick Bathurst Noel Hodges Arthur Parnell Gerard Lander William Robins Donald Harris Basil Guy Basil Snell John Hare Robert Brown Christopher Mayfield Michael Bourke Malcolm Lesiter Paul Hughes Dave Middlebrook

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