Ken Gill (bishop)

The Rt Revd Kenneth E. Gill
Assistant Bishop of Newcastle
Diocese	Diocese of Newcastle
In office	1980–98
Successor	Paul Richardson
Other posts	Honorary assistant bishop in Diocese of Newcastle (1999–2013) Bishop of Central Karnataka (1972–1980)
Orders
Ordination	1958 (deacon); 1960 (presbyter)
Consecration	1972
Personal details
Born	22 May 1932
Died	16 February 2013 (aged 80)
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	Fred & Elsie
Spouse	Edna Hammond (m. 1957)
Children	1 son; 2 daughters
Profession	Missionary, writer
Alma mater	Hartley Victoria College, Manchester

Ken Gill (Kenneth Edward Gill; 22 May 1932 – 16 February 2013)^[1] was an Anglican bishop – he 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 have three children: one son and two daughters. 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,^[2] 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.

References

1. Diocese of Newcastle – Bishop Kenneth Gill RIP (Accessed 26 April 2014)
2. 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.

Sources

• Gill, Rt Rev. Kenneth Edward. Who Was Who. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 26 April 2014.