The Rt Rev Anthony Charles Dumper was the Bishop of Dudley

Bishop of Dudley

The Bishop of Dudley is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Worcester, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after the town of Dudley in the West Midlands.-List of the Bishops of Dudley:...

 from 1977 until 1993. Born on 4 October 1923 he was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge

Christ's College, Cambridge

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 and ordained in 1947. He began his ecclesiastical career with a Curacy

Curate

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 in Greenwich

Greenwich

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  after which he was Vicar

Vicar

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 of Perak

Perak

Perak , one of the 13 states of Malaysia, is the second largest state in the Peninsular Malaysia bordering Kedah and Yala Province of Thailand to the north, Penang to the northwest, Kelantan and Pahang to the east, Selangor the Strait of Malacca to the south and west.Perak means silver in Malay...

 and then Archdeacon

Archdeacon

An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in Anglicanism, Syrian Malabar Nasrani, Chaldean Catholic, and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop. In the High Middle Ages it was the most senior diocesan position below a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church...

 of North Malaysia

Diocese of West Malaysia

Diocese of West Malaysia is an Anglican diocese which covers the entire West Malaysia. The Diocese of West Malaysia was founded in 8 April 1970, as DWM together with Diocese of Singapore split from Diocese of Singapore and Malaya...

 before his elevation to the Episcopate

Historical episcopate

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. A keen gardener, Bishop Anthony is married with two sons and one daughter and in retirement continues to serve the church as an Assistant Bishop

Assistant Bishop

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 within the Diocese of Birmingham

Anglican Diocese of Birmingham

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