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Richard Harries (Richard Douglas Harries) was born on 2 June, 1936, is an A 20th-century British Army personnel. Discover Richard Harries's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

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1936

Richard Douglas Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth, FLSW (born 2 June 1936) is a retired bishop of the Church of England and former British Army officer.

1955

He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Signals on 16 December 1955 and was promoted to lieutenant two years later.

1958

He left the active Regular Army on 12 September 1958 (transferring to the reserve of officers), and went to Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he studied theology (BA 1961, MA 1965), before going on to Cuddesdon College (1961–63) to study for ordination.

1963

Harries was made deacon in 1963, becoming assistant curate of Hampstead St John in the Diocese of London (1963–69).

1965

He formally resigned his original army commission on 18 March 1965, but was immediately recommissioned as Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class in the Territorial Army; on 29 October 1969 he once more transferred to the reserve.

1967

He was ordained priest the following year and later combined his ministry at St John's with the chaplaincy of the former Westfield College (now part of Queen Mary, University of London) (1967–69).

1969

He became a tutor at Wells Theological College (1969–71) and was then warden of the new Salisbury and Wells Theological College (1971–72).

1972

He returned to parish ministry as vicar of All Saints', Fulham (1972–1981) and returned to academia as Dean of King's College London (1981–1987).

1986

In 1986, Harries took up a subsidiary appointment as consultant to the archbishops of Canterbury and York on inter-faith relations.

As Bishop of Oxford he became a founder member of the Oxford Abrahamic Group, bringing together Christian, Muslim, and Jewish scholars.

1987

He was the Bishop of Oxford from 1987 to 2006.

He was appointed Bishop of Oxford in 1987, being consecrated on 28 May at St Paul's Cathedral by Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury and taking a seat as a Lord Spiritual in the House of Lords in 1993.

1988

In 1988 he was president of the Johnson Society, delivering a presidential address on "Johnson – A Church of England Saint".

He has been a member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (including serving as chair of the HFEA Ethics and Law Committee) and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, as well as chairing the House of Lords select committee on stem cell research.

1992

He chaired the Council of Christians and Jews from 1992 until 2001.

1996

He was chairman of the Church of England Board for Social Responsibility (1996–2001) and chairman of the House of Bishops' Working Party on Issues in Human Sexuality and has served on the board of Christian Aid.

He was also a member of the Royal Commission on the Reform of the House of Lords (the Wakeham Commission).

A regular contributor to the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, including many appearances on Thought for the Day, he has published three books of radio talks.

He is a patron of POWER International, a charity working with disabled people in poor countries.

1999

In 1999 he was appointed to the Royal Commission (chaired by John Wakeham) to investigate a possible reorganisation of the House of Lords, which produced the Wakeham Report.

2002

Harries was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics 2002–2008.

In 2002 he was visiting professor at Liverpool Hope University College.

2004

These include The Passion in Art (Ashgate 2004) and Art and the Beauty of God (Continuum 2000), which was chosen as a book of the year by the Anthony Burgess in The Observer when it was originally published in 1993.

2006

He retired on 2 June 2006, his 70th birthday.

In the week prior to his retirement, on 26 May 2006, Downing Street announced that he was to be made a life peer, and he was gazetted as Baron Harries of Pentregarth, of Ceinewydd in the County of Dyfed on 30 June 2006.

He sits as a cross-bencher.

On 4 August 2006, he was appointed to the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved for a period of five years.

2008

From 2008 until 2012 he was the Gresham Professor of Divinity.

Harries was educated at Wellington College and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

In 2008 he replaced Keith Ward as the Gresham Professor of Divinity.

Harries insisted that there was no conflict between science and religion.

He was critical of both outspoken atheists and creationists: "From time to time, I see American creationist magazines with articles by people claiming to have doctorates in science. Judging religion only on the basis of its least credible examples is as though I judged all science on the basis of creationist science."

Harries currently serves as an Advisory Steering Group member for the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life.

Harries is the author of 26 books on the interface of Christian faith and wider culture, including ethics, politics and the arts, especially the visual arts.

The Re-Enchantment of Morality (SPCK 2008) was shortlisted for the 2011 Michael Ramsey prize for theological writing.

2013

The Image of Christ in Modern Art was published by Ashgate in October 2013.

Harries reviews books regularly for the Church Times.

His passion for social justice influenced his liberal views.

At the start of his episcopacy, he brought legal proceedings challenging the Church Commissioners' policy on investment.

He and his co-plaintiffs argued that the Church Commissioners placed too much emphasis on purely financial considerations and insufficient emphasis upon the promotion of the Christian faith.