Kenneth Kirk


Kenneth Kirk
Bishop of Oxford
ChurchChurch of England
DioceseOxford
In office9 December 1937 – 8 June 1954
PredecessorThomas Strong
SuccessorHarry Carpenter
Other post(s)Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, University of Oxford (1933–1938)
Orders
Ordination21 December 1912 (deacon)
1913 (priest)
Consecrationc. 1937
Personal details
Born
Kenneth Escott Kirk

(1886-02-21)21 February 1886
Died8 June 1954(1954-06-08) (aged 68)
DenominationAnglicanism
Alma materSt John's College, Oxford

Kenneth Escott Kirk (21 February 1886 – 8 June 1954), also known as K. E. Kirk, was an English Anglican bishop. An influential moral theologian, he served as Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford from 1933 to 1938, and then as the Bishop of Oxford in the Church of England from 1937 to 1954.