Andrew Watson, Bishop of Guildford who pursued his evangelical mission through church-planting and other methods

bishop Andrew Watson

Watson was beaten by the sadistic church camp leader John Smyth in ‘the infamous garden shed’, but the experience had not shaken his faith

The Rt Rev Andrew Watson, who has died of cancer aged 64, was, from 2015, a popular Bishop of Guildford with an evangelical missionary outlook befitting the grandson of medical missionaries in China; before that he spent seven years as Suffragan Bishop of Aston in the diocese of Birmingham…

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