John Went

John Stewart Went (born 11 March 1944) was the Anglican Bishop of Tewkesbury, the suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Gloucester, from 25 January 1996 until 2 March 2013.

He was educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was made deacon at Michaelmas 1969 (29 September), by Robert Stopford, Bishop of London, at St Paul's Cathedral, and ordained priest the Michaelmas following (29 September 1970), by Graham Leonard, Bishop of Willesden, at St Mary's, Willesden. Went married Rosemary Dunn followed by an incumbency at Margate. Vice-principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford from 1983 until 1989 when he became Archdeacon of Surrey. In 1996 he became the suffragan Bishop of Tewkesbury; he was consecrated a bishop on 25 January 1996 by George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.

Styles The Reverend John Went (1969–1989) The Venerable John Went (1989–1996) The Right Reverend John Went (1996–present)