MICHAEL BALL (CLERGYMAN)

'Michael Thomas Ball' (born 14 February 1932) is an Anglican clergyman and co-founder of the Community of the Glorious Ascension. He was Bishop of Truro ^[1]from 1990 to 1997.
Ball was educated at Lancing College and Queens' College, Cambridge. He was a teacher of Biology and Chemistry at Marling School in Stroud, Gloucestershire ^[2] and was latterly Head of the Lower School, until 1975. He was Chaplain of Sussex University 1976 to 1980, suffragan Bishop of Jarrow from 1980 to 1990 and then 13th Bishop of Truro.
In 1960 Ball also founded a monastic community at Stratford Park in Stroud, along with his identical twin brother Peter Ball, who later became suffragan Bishop of Lewes and then Bishop of Gloucester (1992–1993).

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1. Truro Cathedral website
2. Museum in the Park, Stroud