Rt Rev The Baron Harries of Pentregarth 1936-2026

 Rt Rev The Baron Harries of Pentregarth, who died 29 April, 2026, aged 89, was, as the Rt Rev Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford from 1987 to 2006.

Richard Douglas Harries was born 2 June, 1936, son of Brigadier William Douglas Jameson Harries, CBE (1900-1991), of Saddlers Funtington, Chichester, and his wife the former Greta Miriam Bathurst Brown (1906-1987).

 He was the Bishop of Oxford from 1987 to 2006. From 2008 until 2012 he was the Gresham Professor of Divinity.

On his retirement as Bishop of Oxford it was announced that he was to be elevated to the peerage, and in June, 2006, he was gazetted as Baron Harries of Pentregarth, of Ceinewydd in the County of Dyfed. He sat in the House of Lords as a Crossbench peer. In 2006 he was appointed to the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved for a period of five years.

Bishop Harries married in 1963, Josephine Bottomley, MA, MB, BChir, by whom he had one son and one daughter.

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