Bishop and Chancellor
Carpenter was Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, from 1428 to 1444, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1437. Carpenter was nominated on 20 December 1443 and consecrated as Bishop of Worcester on 22 March 1444. He resigned the see in July 1476. Carpenter died in 1476 in Northwick, Worcestershire, England, and was buried in Westbury on Trym.
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