Researching Roger Sainsbury
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The name Roger means "famous spear" and is of German origin.
Records of Roger Sainsbury on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Roger Sainsbury and the Sainsbury Genealogy
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Roger Sainsbury (bishop)
Roger Frederick Sainsbury (born 2 October 1936) is a retired Anglican bishop. He was the second area Bishop of Barking (the seventh Bishop of Barking) in the Church of England from 1991 to 2002.
Sainsbury was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge before beginning his ordained ministry as a curate at Christ Church, Spitalfields. He was then "missioner" at Shrewsbury House, Liverpool, Warden of the Mayflower Family Centre, Canning Town; Vicar of Walsall; and finally, before being ordained to the episcopate, the Archdeacon of West Ham. In retirement he serves as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Bath and Wells.
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