{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox Christian leader | name = Roderic Coote | title = Bishop of Colchester | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | diocese = Diocese of Chelmsford | elected = | term = 1966–1987 (ret.) | enthroned = | quashed = | term_end = | predecessor = Frederick Narborough | opposed = | successor = Michael Vickers | other_post = {{unbulleted list|Bishop of Gambia and the Rio Pongas {{nowrap|(1951–1957)}}|Bishop of Fulham {{nowrap|(1957–1966)}}}} <!---------- Orders ----------> | ordination = 1939 | ordained_by = | consecration = 1951 | consecrated_by = <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1915|4|13|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|2000|7|6|1915|4|13|df=y}} | death_place = | buried = | nationality = | religion = Anglican | residence = | parents = | spouse = | children = | occupation = | profession = | education = | alma_mater = Trinity College, Dublin }} '''Roderic Norman Coote''' OBE (13 April 1915{{snd}}6 July 2000)<ref>[http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp78356&rNo=0&role=sit NPG details]</ref> was an Anglican bishop who held three different posts in an ecclesiastical career spanning half a century.<ref>“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}</ref>
Coote was the son of Commander Bernard Trotter Coote and Grace Harriet Robinson, daughter of the Very Reverend John Joseph Robinson. He was the grandson of Sir Algernon Coote, 12th Baronet, Lord-Lieutenant of Queen's County (see Coote baronets).<ref name="thepeerage.com">[http://www.thepeerage.com/p25273.htm#i252723 thepeerage.com Rt. Rev. Roderic Norman Coote]</ref> Educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1939, he began his career with a curacy at ''St Bartholomew's, Dublin''.<ref>[http://www.stbartholomews.ie/ Parish web site]</ref> After a decade as a missionary priest in The Gambia he became diocesan bishop (Bishop of Gambia and the Rio Pongas) <ref>''New Bishop Of Gambia (Official Appointments and Notices)'' The Times Thursday, Mar 08, 1951; pg. 6; Issue 51944; col B</ref> in 1951. Translated to Fulham in 1957,<ref>''Bishop Of Fulham Dr. R. N. Coote Appointed (Official Appointments and Notices)'' The Times Wednesday, Oct 31, 1956; pg. 5; Issue 53676; col D</ref> his final appointment was a sideways move to Bishop of Colchester<ref>''Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76'' London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}}</ref> nine years later. He became an area bishop with the creation of the Chelmsford area scheme 1983.<ref>{{cite web|title=4: The Dioceses Commission, 1978–2002 |url=http://www.churchofengland.org/media/40670/chapter4.pdf|publisher=Church of England|accessdate=23 April 2013}}</ref> An accomplished musician,<ref>{{cite web |title=The Rt Rev Roderic Coote |website=The Daily Telegraph |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160501221750/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1348892/The-Rt-Rev-Roderic-Coote.html |archive-date=2016-05-01 |url-status=live |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1348892/The-Rt-Rev-Roderic-Coote.html}}</ref> he died just six months short of his 50th Episcopal anniversary.
Coote married Erica Lynette Shrubbs, daughter of Reverend Eric Gordon Shrubbs, in 1964. They had one son and two daughters. He died in July 2000, aged 85.<ref name="thepeerage.com"/>
==References== {{Reflist}} {{s-start}} {{s-rel|en}} {{s-bef|before=John Daly}} {{s-ttl|title=Bishop of Gambia and the Rio Pongas|years=1951 – 1957}} {{s-aft|after=St John Pike}} {{s-bef|before=Robert Stopford }} {{s-ttl|title=Bishop of Fulham|years=1957 – 1966}} {{s-aft|after=Alan Rogers}} {{s-bef|before=Frederick Narborough }} {{s-ttl|title=Bishop of Colchester|years=1966 – 1987}} {{s-aft|after=Michael Vickers}} {{s-end}} {{Dioceses of the Anglican Province of West Africa}} {{Bishops of Gambia and the Rio Pongas}} {{Bishops of Fulham}} {{Bishops of Colchester}} {{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Coote, Roderic Norman}} Category:1915 births Category:Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Category:Anglican bishops of Gambia and the Rio Pongas Category:Bishops of Fulham Category:Bishops of Colchester Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire Category:2000 deaths Roderic Category:Anglicanism in the Gambia