Roger_Sainsbury_(bishop)
Roger Frederick Sainsbury (born 2 October 1936)[1] 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.[2]
Sainsbury was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge[3] before beginning his ordained ministry as a curate at Christ Church, Spitalfields.[4] He was then "missioner" at Shrewsbury House, Liverpool,[5] Warden of the Mayflower Family Centre, Canning Town;[6] Vicar of Walsall;[7] 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.