The Chaplain-General of Prisons is the head of the
Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britai ...
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chaplain
A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secular institution (such as a hospital, prison, military unit, intellige ...
cy to
prison
A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, standard English, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, correc ...
s. He is also an ''ex officio'' member of the House of Clergy of the
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Chaplains-general
:''Smith was the first chaplain-general.''
*1946-1961
Hugh Smith
*1962–1980 (res.):
Leslie Lloyd Rees
Leslie Lloyd Rees (properly surnamed Lloyd-Rees, but sometimes called Rees; 14 April 19194 July 2013) was variously Honorary Chaplain to the Queen, Chaplain-General of Prisons and Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury.
Rees was educated at Kelham Theol ...
*1981–1985 (res.):
Percy Ashford (first Archdeacon to the Prison Service, 1982–1985)
:''The post of archdeacon to HM Prisons was created in 1982 and consistently held by the CG.''
*1986–1993 (res.):
Keith Pound
The Venerable Keith Salisbury Pound (born 1933) is an Anglican priest: he was Chaplain-General of Prisons from 1986 to 1993.
The Venerable Pound was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and ordained in 1958. After a curacy at St Peter he ...
(also Archdeacon to the Prison Service)
*1993–2001 (ret.):
David Fleming (also Archdeacon of Prisons)
*2001–2011 (ret.):
William 'Nobby' Noblett (also Archdeacon to HM Prisons)
*2014–2018 (ret.):
Mike Kavanagh
Michael Lowther Kavanagh is a retired Church of England priest who was the Chaplain-General of Prisons (and Archdeacon of Prisons).
Early life and education
Kavanagh was educated at the University of York and the College of the Resurrection, Mi ...
, Head of Chaplaincy, has been Chaplain-General and Archdeacon since 2013, but was licensed on 13 October 2014.
*October 2018present
James Ridge
References
External links
Norman Doe, ''The legal framework of the Church of England'', p 207
Anglicanism
Prison chaplains
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