Richard Harries
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The Rt Revd Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford, giving a speech in 2004.
The Right Reverend Richard Douglas Harries is a Church of England bishop, currently the 41st Bishop of Oxford.
Harries is a Liberal reformer noted for his opposition to Section 28 and for his appointment of the gay Canon Jeffrey John as Bishop of Reading in 2003, from which Jeffrey John subsequently withdrew amid controversy over homosexual clergy. In 2002 Harries joined the biologist Richard Dawkins in denouncing the Emmanuel Schools Foundation for teaching creationism.
Richard Harries was born in 1936. He was Dean of Kings College, Cambridge prior to his appointment as the 41st bishop of Oxford in 1987, and took his seat in the House of Lords in 1993.