Michael Edgar Adie was born in
Romford, Essex on 22 November 1929, the son of Walter Granville Adie and Kate Emily Adie (née Parrish). He was educated at
Westminster School and
St John's College, Oxford. He is a distant relative of the broadcaster and journalist
Kate Adie. Adie was
ordained in 1955 and after a
curacy at St Luke, Pallion,
Sunderland he became
Resident Chaplain to the
Archbishop of Canterbury. After that he was
Vicar of St Mark,
Sheffield,
Rural Dean of
Hallam, Rector of Louth, and
Archdeacon of Lincoln before being elevated to the
episcopate. Adie played a significant role in introducing the measure in General Synod that led to the ordination of women priests. He was Chairman of the General Synod Board of Education and was appointed a
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the
1994 Birthday Honours for services to education. After retiring from Guildford, he became honorary assistant bishop in the
Diocese of Chichester in 1996 and, in 1995, of
Portsmouth, where, in the latter diocese, he lived at
Froxfield, Hampshire. In 1957, he married Anne Devonald Roynon (1930–2013); they had three daughters and one son. Michael Adie died of pneumonia on 4 March 2024, at the age of 94. ==Notes==