Person Open DS/UK/10362 Roberts; Edward (1908-2001); English Anglican priest | Bishop of Ely 1964 - 1977 Roberts Edward 1908-2001 English Anglican priest | Bishop of Ely 1964 - 1977 Male

Edward James Keymer Roberts (18 April 1908 – 29 July 2001) was an Anglican bishop who held three separate episcopal appointments between 1956 and 1977. Roberts was educated at Marlborough and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and ordained priest in 1932. After a curacy at All Saints, Margaret Street in central London and four years as Vice Principal of Cuddesdon, he was to spend a long period in the Diocese of Portsmouth as successively examining chaplain to the bishop, vicar of St Matthew’s Southsea, Archdeacon of the Isle of Wight (1948–52) and Archdeacon of Portsmouth before being ordained to the episcopate in 1956. After six years in Wiltshire, he was translated to be the Bishop of Kensington in 1962 and again, two years later, to be the Bishop of Ely. In 1977 he retired to his former Isle of Wight parish where he died on 29 June 2001, aged 93. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHhbaulcombe 12/17/2013 Rachael.Fragola 3/1/2022 7a17ba12-2ad2-4778-838f-7942b4ddb3d0