John Thornley Finney (born 1 May 1932) was the eighth Suffragan Bishop of Pontefract.
[1] He was educated at Charterhouse and Hertford College, Oxford.
[2] Ordained in 1958, he began his career with curacies in Headington and Aylesbury[3] and was then successively Rector of Tollerton, Vicar of St Margarets Aspley[4] Adviser in Evangelism to the Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham and then Officer for the Decade of Evangelism before ascending to the Episcopate[5] – a post he held from 1993 until 1998.
An eminent author,[6] in retirement he continues to minister, as an honorary assistant bishop within the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham.
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