John Mantle

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John Mantle (rugby)

John Mantle (born 13 March 1942) is a Welsh former dual-code international rugby player. He was capped for Wales at rugby union, and Great Britain, and Wales in rugby league.

Rugby career

Mantle began his rugby career at a young age, playing for the Wales School team. As an adult he played with Bargoed before switching to first class team Newport. While representing Newport, Mantle was selected for his two Welsh rugby union caps. His first was when he was selected as part of the touring Wales team to Africa. Mantle played in the early games of the tour, including wins over East Africa in Nairobi and Boland at Wellington. His first international was against South Africa in Durban in 1964, but Wales were outclassed and lost 24-3 in a one-sided match. Mantle played in the later games on the tour, including matches against Northern Transvaal and Orange Free State. On his return he played one final game in a win over England, at the Cardiff Arms Park as part of the 1963 Five Nations Championship.

John Mantle (bishop)

The Rt Rev Dr John Ambrose Cyril Mantle was the Bishop of Brechin in the Scottish Episcopal Church; he was born in 1946 in Brechin, the son of an Episcopal priest with a long ministry in Dundee and Aberdeen.

Ministry

John Mantle trained for ordination at the Edinburgh Theological College and was ordained deacon in Brechin Diocese in 1969, and priest the following year. He served in the Scottish Episcopal Church until 1980, and thereafter in the Church of England until he returned to Scotland on his elevation to the episcopate. In 1980, he became Chaplain of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, moving to become staff tutor and Vice Principal of the Canterbury School of Ministry in 1986. He served as Director of Adult Education for the Diocese of Chichester from 1994 to 1999, and was then the Archbishops’ Adviser for Bishops’ Ministry in the Church of England for six years before his election as a bishop in 2005.

Mantle did not begin life as an academic, and was ordained as a non-graduate, subsequently taking a degree in theology from the University of St Andrews. In 1990 he was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Kent and in 1998 he completed his Ph.D. with the University of Leeds, writing a dissertation on British worker-priests in the early 1950s and 1960s (later published by SCM).