Peter Firth (bishop)


Peter James Firth was the Bishop suffragan of Malmesbury from 1983 until 1994.
Firth was educated at Stockport Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1955 and was a curate at St Stephen's Barbourne. Following this he was priest in charge at the Church of the Ascension, Malvern and then Rector of St George's Gorton. From 1967 to 1983 he worked in various capacities for the Religious Broadcasting Unit at BBC South West. He was ordained to the episcopate by Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 30 November 1983 at Southwark Cathedral. He retired in 1994 and is an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Gloucester.