Tony Comber

Anthony James Comber [1] (20 April 1927 – 6 July 2022) was Archdeacon of Leeds[2] from 1982 to 1992.[3]

Comber was vicar of Oulton from 1960 to 1969; and then of Hunslet from 1969 to 1977. He was Rector of Farnley from 1977 to 1982.[4]

Comber died on 6 July 2022, at the age of 95.[5]

Notes

Diocese of Ripon & Leeds web-site Archived 15 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
Burches
‘COMBER, Ven. Anthony James’, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, November 2014 accessed 3 November 2015
Crockford's Clerical Directory 1980-82: Oxford, OUP, 1983 ISBN 0-19-200010-1
"Church Times: "Deaths", 29 July 2022". Retrieved 29 July 2022.

Archdeacons of Leeds
Archdeacons of Ripon	Arthur Waugh Lucius Smith (became Archdeacon of Leeds)
Lucius Smith (previously Archdeacon of Ripon) Paul de Labilliere Donald Bartlett Lovell Clarke Charles Ellison Alfred Page Tony Comber John Oliver Peter Burrows Paul Hooper Arani Sen (acting) Paul Ayers

Office holders

Diocesan bishop	Nick Baines, Bishop of Leeds
Area bishops	Tony Robinson, Bishop of Wakefield Toby Howarth, Bishop of Bradford Arun Arora, Bishop of Kirkstall (area bishop for Leeds) Smitha Prasadam, Bishop of Huddersfield Anna Eltringham, Bishop of Ripon
Other bishops	AEO: the area Bishop of Wakefield & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet
Deans	John Dobson, Dean of Ripon Simon Cowling, Dean of Wakefield Andy Bowerman, Dean of Bradford
Archdeacons	Andy Jolley, Archdeacon of Bradford Paul Ayers, Archdeacon of Leeds Jonathan Gough, Archdeacon of Richmond and Craven Bill Braviner, Archdeacon of Halifax Archdeacon of Pontefract (vacant)

Predecessor offices

diocesan Bishops of Ripon (1836–2014; renamed "Ripon and Leeds" in 1999), of Wakefield (1888–2014) and of Bradford (1919–2014)
Bishop suffragan of Penrith (1888–1889; reappointed to Richmond)
Bishops suffragan of Knaresborough (renamed Ripon), of Pontefract (renamed Wakefield) and of Richmond (renamed Kirkstall)
Provost of Bradford (1930–2000; see Dean of Bradford)
Provost of Wakefield (1931–2000; see Dean of Wakefield)
Archdeacon of Craven (1836–2014; merged into Richmond and Craven)
Archdeacon of Halifax (1888–1927; renamed Pontefract)
Archdeacon of Huddersfield (1888–1927; renamed Halifax)
Archdeacon of Ripon (1894–1921; renamed Archdeacon of Leeds)

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