Michael Frederick Gear (27 November 1934 – 26 January 2018) was Suffragan Bishop of Doncaster.
[1] Gear was educated at St John's College, Durham.
[2] Ordained in 1961,[3] he began his career with a curacy at Christ Church, Bexleyheath[4] was then Vicar of St Andrew, Clubmore, Liverpool; Rector of Avondale, Harare; Rural Dean of Macclesfield; and finally, before his elevation to the episcopate, Archdeacon of Chester.
Since retiring to Maidstone Bishop Michael continued to serve the church as an assistant bishop within Canterbury diocese and a trustee of a charity for Zimbabwean street children.
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