James Gordon (bishop of Jarrow)

James Geoffrey Gordon (11 December 1881 – 28 August 1938) was a priest and bishop in the Church of England.

He wrote ‘Papers in Picardy’ with Reverend T W Pym DSO and contributed an essay to ‘The Church in the Furnace’ a critical view by TCFs of the Church's deficiencies in time of war.

He was appointed suffragan bishop of Jarrow in 1932 but died in August, 1938.

His special responsibility throughout Durham but particularly in Jarrow was providing support during a severe period of unemployment causing considerable hardship.

[6] After his death, the Bishop of Durham praised Gordon for ‘the cheery comradeship in effort, for the words of sympathy and wisdom, for the comfort of his presence, and for the spur of his example’.