The Rt Rev David Young, who became the Anglican Bishop of Ripon in 1977, died on August 10, aged 76.He was for several years the youngest diocesan bishop in the Church of England.
David Nigel de Lorentz Young was born on September 1931.
On leaving Wellington College Young did National Service (1950-51) as a second lieutenant at the Royal Engineers' School of Military Survey.
He then went up to Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a First in Mathematics.
From 1959 to 1962 he was a curate in the large parish of All Hallows, Allerton, Liverpool, and then, with a missionary intention, moved to London to study Sanskrit and Pali at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
In 1963, under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society, as it was then known. He then went to Sri Lanka, where he began to encourage encounters between the Christian and Buddhist communities.
After only two years, he returned to England to become lecturer in Buddhist Studies at Manchester University. There he helped to establish Religious Studies. In1975 he was appointed Archdeacon of Huntingdon. He was also made an honorary canon of Ely Cathedral, and in 1977 rector of Hemingford Abbots.
Then, Young was appointed Bishop of Ripon, where he found himself confronted with a rare mixture of beautiful Yorkshire Dales parishes and West Riding multiracial communities which presented the Church with immense problems.
He retired in 1999 after achieving his ambition to have Leeds incorporated into the name of the diocese.
He was the last Bishop of Ripon before the diocese changed its name to the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds.
Hundreds of mourners are expected to attend the funeral later today of the former Bishop of Ripon. The service will be led by Bishop David's three chaplains during his time in office - Canon Tony Shepherd, the Rev Paul Hooper and the Rev Michael Hepper.
His successor, Bishop John Packer, said: "Bishop David's ministry had a profound effect on the life of the diocese through his pastoral care and generous self-giving. He had a particular ministry in terms of education, including his period as chairman of the Church of England Board of Education, and he established a link with Sri Lanka which still flourishes."
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