Roe was educated at Bournemouth School, Jesus College, Oxford and St Stephen's House.
He was made deacon on Trinity Sunday 1958 (1 June)[3] and ordained priest the Trinity Sunday following (24 May 1959) — both times by Alwyn Williams, Bishop of Winchester, at Winchester Cathedral.
[4] After a curacy at Bournemouth[5] he was Priest in charge of St Michael's, Abingdon[6] and then Vice Principal of St Chad's College, Durham.
He was consecrated a bishop on 3 November 1980, by Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.
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