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Archdeacon Of Northolt
The Archdeacon of Northolt is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of London. As such, they are responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy within its four Rural Dean, area deaneries: London Borough of Brent, Brent, Hillingdon, Ealing and Harrow, London, Harrow. The post was inaugurated in 1970 and is currently held by Catherine Pickford. List of archdeacons *1970–1980 (ret.): Roy Southwell (first archdeacon; afterward archdeacon emeritus) *1980–1985 (res.): Tom Butler (bishop), Tom Butler *1985–1992 (res.): Eddie Shirras *1992–1994 (res.): Michael Colclough *1995–2001 (res.): Pete Broadbent *2001–2005 (res.): Christopher Chessun *2006–2011 (res.): Rachel Treweek *20111 April 2013: ''post vacant – acting archdeacon: the area Bishop of Willesden (Pete Broadbent)'' * 1 April 201330 November 2019 (ret.): Duncan Green (priest), Duncan Green * September 2020 onwards: Catherine Pickford References {{DEFAULTSORT:Northolt, Archdeacon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Eddie Shirras
Edward Scott Shirras (23 April 1937 – 3 October 2020) was a British priest of the Church of England. He was the Archdeacon of Northolt from 1985 to 1992. Shirras was educated at Sevenoaks School and the University of St Andrews. After Curate, curacies at Christ Church, Surbiton and Jesmond Parish Church he was Youth Secretary of the Church Pastoral Aid Society from 1968 to 1971; its Publications Secretary until 1974 and Assistant General Secretary until 1975. Following this, he was Vicar of Christ Church, Roxeth then Rural Dean, Area Dean of London Borough of Harrow, Harrow until his archdeacon’s appointment. After this he was Vicar (Anglicanism), Vicar of Christ Church, Winchester, from 1992 to 2001 and then priest in charge of Marcham with Garford until 2009. Shirras died on 3 October 2020, at the age of 83. References 1937 births People educated at Sevenoaks School Alumni of the University of St Andrews Archdeacons of Northolt {{Canterbury-archdeacon-20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archdeacons Of Northolt
An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop. In the High Middle Ages it was the most senior diocesan position below a bishop in the Catholic Church. An archdeacon is often responsible for administration within an archdeaconry, which is the principal subdivision of the diocese. The ''Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church'' has defined an archdeacon as "A cleric having a defined administrative authority delegated to him by the bishop in the whole or part of the diocese.". The office has often been described metaphorically as ''oculus episcopi'', the "bishop's eye". Catholic Church In the Latin Catholic Church, the post of archdeacon, originally an ordained deacon (rather than a priest), was once one of great importance as a senior official of a diocese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan Green (priest)
Duncan Jamie Green (born 30 April 1952) is a British retired Anglican priest. From 2013 until retirement, he was Archdeacon of Northolt in the Diocese of London; from 2007 to 2013, he was the Church of England's Olympic and Paralympic Co-ordinator. Early life and education Green was born on 30 April 1952. His first career was as a sales director for an agricultural engineering company. In 1982, he matriculated into Salisbury and Wells Theological College, an Anglican theological college, to train for Holy Orders. Ordained ministry Green was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1984 and as a priest in 1985. From 1984 to 1987, he served his curacy at Holy Cross, Uckfield in the Diocese of Chichester. In 1987, he moved to the Diocese of Chelmsford as a Diocese Youth Officer. From 1993 to 1996, he was also Warden and Chaplain of St Mark's College Residential Youth Centre at Audley End House, which he had help establish. Remaining in the Diocese of Chelmsford, he took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Of Willesden
The Bishop of Willesden is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of London, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after Willesden, an area of the London Borough of Brent; the See was erected under the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888 by Order in Council dated 8 August 1911. The post was created in 1911, and was the third suffragan bishopric erected in the diocese since 1879. The new bishop was given oversight of four rural deaneries: Hampstead, Hornsey, St Pancras and Willesden, previously the responsibility of the Bishop of Islington. By November 1911, the Bishop's residence was 13 Cannon Place, Hampstead. In the experimental area scheme of 1970, the bishop was given oversight of the deaneries of Brent, Harrow, Ealing East and West, and Hillingdon. The bishops suffragan of Willesden have been area bishops since the London area scheme was founded in 1979. The bishop now has responsibility for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Treweek
Rachel Treweek (née Montgomery; born 4 February 1963) is an English Anglican bishop who has served as Bishop of Gloucester since 2015 and is the joint third female bishop in the Church of England, and first female diocesean bishop. A former speech and language therapist, she was the archdeacon of Hackney in the Diocese of London from 2011 until 2015. Early life and career Born Rachel Montgomery on 4 February 1963, she was educated at Broxbourne School, a state school in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. She studied at the University of Reading, graduating in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in linguistics and language pathology. Treweek's first career was as a speech and language therapist. After six years as a paediatric speech therapist in the National Health Service, she left her job to train for ordination in the Church of England. Ordained ministry Treweek studied for ordained ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, an Anglican theological college, and graduated with a Bac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Chessun
Christopher Thomas James Chessun (born 5 August 1956) is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2011, he has been Bishop of Southwark in the Church of England. Early life and education Chessun is a twin and was born on 5 August 1956. He was educated at Hampton School, an all-boys private school in London. He studied modern history at University College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1978: as per tradition, his BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Oxon) degree in 1982. He trained for ordination at Westcott House, Cambridge, a liberal catholic theological college, while also studying theology at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA degree in 1982, having completed part II of the Theological Tripos. Ordained ministry Made a deacon at Petertide 1983 (3 July) by Conrad Meyer, Bishop of Dorchester, at Dorchester Abbey and ordained a priest the following Petertide (1 July 1984) by Patrick Rodger, Bishop of Oxford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Broadbent
Peter Alan Broadbent (born 31 July 1952), known as Pete Broadbent, is an English Anglicanism, Anglican bishop. He served as the Bishop of Willesden, an area bishop in the Church of England Diocese of London for twenty years, 2001–2021. During the vacancy in the diocesan see from 2017 to 2018, he served as Acting Bishop of London. Early life and education Broadbent was born on 31 July 1952. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, Middlesex. He was 15 years of age when he became a committed Christians, Christian through the Urban Saints, Crusaders youth organisation. He studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, and then studied theology at St John's College, Nottingham, before being ordained. Ordained ministry He was ordained a deacon at Michaelmas (25 September) 1977 and a priest the next Michaelmas (24 September 1978), both times by John Habgood, Bishop of Durham, at Durham Cathedral. Broadbent's first c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Colclough
Michael John Colclough (born 29 December 1944) is a British retired Anglican bishop. He served as area Bishop of Kensington in the Diocese of London (1996–2008) then canon pastor of St Paul's Cathedral, London (2008–2013). Early life and education Colclough was born on 29 December 1944 in Staffordshire, England. He was educated at Stanfield Technical High School, a technical school in Burslem, Staffordshire, where he was head boy in 1963. He studied at the University of Leeds, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1969. From 1969 to 1971, he trained for ordination at Cuddesdon College, an Anglo-Catholic theological college in Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire. Ordained ministry Colclough was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1971 and as a priest in 1972. His first curacy was adjacent to his old school at St Werburgh's in Burslem, a parish in the Diocese of Lichfield. He moved to the Diocese of London in 1975, serving a second curacy at St Mary in South Rui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Butler (bishop)
Thomas Frederick Butler (born 5 March 1940) is a British retired Anglican bishop. He was the ninth Anglican Bishop of Southwark. He was enthroned in Southwark Cathedral on 12 September 1998. He retired from this position on 5 March 2010. In 2014, Butler was involved in the transition process for the new Diocese of Leeds as "mentor bishop"; he remains an honorary assistant bishop of that diocese. Early life and education Born in Birmingham, Butler attended King Edward VI Five Ways school in Birmingham and the University of Leeds, where he obtained a first class honours BSc, an MSc and PhD in electronics. He trained for ordination with the Mirfield Fathers at the College of the Resurrection in Yorkshire. Ordained ministry After ordination in 1964, he served three years as a curate in the Diocese of Ely and Diocese of Canterbury before spending 12 years as a lecturer in electronics and a chaplain at the University of Zambia and then at the University of Kent in Canterbury. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocese Of London
The Diocese of London forms part of the Church of England's Province of Canterbury in England. It lies directly north of the Thames, covering and all or part of 17 London boroughs. This corresponds almost exactly to the historic county of Middlesex. It includes the City of London in which lies its cathedral, St Paul's, and also encompasses Spelthorne which is currently administered by Surrey. It encompasses most of that part of Greater London which lies north of the River Thames and west of the River Lea. The diocese covered all of Essex until 1846 when Essex became part of the Diocese of Rochester, after which St Albans and since 1914 forms the Diocese of Chelmsford. It also formerly took in southern and eastern parts of Hertfordshire. The ''Report of the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty to inquire into the Ecclesiastical Revenues of England and Wales'' (1835), noted the annual net income for the London see was £13,929. This made it the third wealthiest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Southwell
Roy Southwell (3 December 191423 July 2011) was the first Archdeacon of Northolt from 1970 to 1980. Born in Sudbury on 3 December 1914, he was educated at Sudbury Grammar School and King's College London. After curacies in Wigan and Kennington he held incumbencies at Ixworth (1948), Bury St Edmunds (1951) and Bucklesham (1956) Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) before becoming the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich’s Director of Education, a post he held from 1959 to 1967. He was Vicar of Hendon from then until his Archdeacon An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denomina ...’s appointment. He died on 23 July 2011. He had married Nancy Sharp and had two daughters. References 1914 births People from Sudbury, Suffolk People educated at Sudbur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
