Albert Peter Hall (2 September 1930 – 27 December 2013) was the

Bishop of Woolwich The Bishop of Woolwich is an episcopal title used by an area bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Southwark, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after Woolwich, a suburb of the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Two o ...

from 1984 until 1996 and the first

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under the 1991

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. Hall was educated at

Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School (QEGS) is a co-educational state-funded comprehensive free school in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. Founded in 1509 as a boys' school, it is now a co-educational all-through free school with over 1200 stude ...

, and

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. Ordained in 1956 he began his ministry as a

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at St Martin's, Birmingham after which he was the Rector of Avondale,

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, and then of

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, Birmingham, before his ordination to the

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. A keen mountain walker, he was married with two sons''

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'' London, 1992

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and in retirement continued to serve the church as an

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in the Diocese of Birmingham.

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1930 births 2013 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Bishops of Woolwich 20th-century Church of England bishops People educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub