Paul Barber (bishop)
Paul Everard Barber was the inaugural Bishop of Brixworth.
Barber was educated at Sherborne School and St John’s College, Oxford. Ordained in the Church of England: made deacon on Trinity Sunday 1960, by Ivor Watkins, Bishop of Guildford, at Holy Trinity Pro-Cathedral, Guildford and ordained priest the Trinity Sunday following, by George Reindorp, Bishop of Guildford, at Guildford Cathedral, after a Curacy at St Francis, Westborough he served as Vicar of Camberley with Yorktown before becoming Rural Dean of Farnham. This in turn led to his becoming Archdeacon of Surrey and finally the first Bishop of Brixworth. He took up that See with his consecration as bishop by Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 25 January 1989 at Westminster Abbey. He retired after 12 years to Street and is now an honorary assistant bishop within the Bath and Wells Diocese and a governor of Millfield School.
