The Right Reverend Alexander Graham, Bishop of Newcastle gifted with both theological and pastoral skills – obituary
Graham moved North just as economic depression was taking a heavy toll and clergy morale was sinking but he quickly won people’s confidence
12 May 2021 • 5:02pm
Alec Graham, Bishop of Newcastle, with the Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey after giving a talk on the Mystery of Salvation, after the publication of a report by the Church of England’s Doctrine Commission which he chaired (1996)
Credit: Brian Smith
The Right Reverend Alexander Graham, who has died aged 91, was Bishop of Newcastle from 1981-97 and before that spent four years as Suffragan Bishop of Bedford.