David Young

David Nigel de Lorentz Young (2 September 1931 – 10 August 2008) was a British Anglican priest, who served as the last Bishop of Ripon before the diocese became known as the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds. At his appointment at the age of 46 he was the youngest diocesan bishop of the Church of England.

He was a supporter of women priests, but opposed to active homosexual priests and same-sex marriages. and was particularly concerned with education. He completed his active duty on 15 October 1951 when he transferred to the Supplementary Reserve of Officers, and went up to Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied mathematics, gaining a first class degree. and this was made substantive on 2 September 1954, and his National Service ended on 23 September 1955.

Ecclesiastical and academic career Young worked in industry as a research mathematician with Plessey before deciding to take holy orders via study at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. In 1975, he was appointed Archdeacon of Huntingdon, and vicar of Great Gidding, then in 1977, briefly rector of Hemingford Abbots and an honorary canon before his nomination as Bishop of Ripon. He retired in 1999, having been diagnosed with bone marrow cancer. The David Young Community Academy in the Seacroft area of Leeds was named after him on 18 October 2006. It is a 'faith school', built at a cost of £23m.

Associations Young was associated with the United Religions Initiative in the United States' Episcopal Church.