Christopher John Cunliffe (born 25 September 1955) is a retired Anglican priest who served as

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from his appointment in 2006 until his retirement, effective 31 December 2020. He was educated at

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, trained for the priesthood at

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, and was

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in 1983. After a

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in Chesterfield he was a

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Lincoln College, Oxford Lincoln College (formally, The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln) is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Lincoln was founded in 1427 by Richard Flemin ...

then

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of the

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. He was Selection Secretary and Vocations Officer for the advisory board of Ministry from 1991 to 1996; the

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's Advisor for Ordained Ministry from 1997 to 2003, and

to the

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until his appointment as

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.‘CUNLIFFE, Ven. Christopher John’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013; online edn, Dec 2013

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1955 births People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Alumni of Westcott House, Cambridge Fellows of Lincoln College, Oxford Archdeacons of Derby Living people {{Canterbury-archdeacon-20C-stub