Samuel Ferran Glenfield (born 1954) is an Irish Anglican bishop. Glenfield is the current

Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh The Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh is the Ordinary of the Church of Ireland Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh in the Province of Armagh. The present incumbent is the Right Revd Ferran Glenfield, who was elected, consecrated, and ins ...

Personal life

Glenfield is married to Jean, a teacher at Wesley College Dublin.They have three children.

Education and ecclesiastical career

Glenfield was educated at

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and

Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Univ ...

and

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in 1992. His first post was a

curacy A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' () of souls of a parish. In this sense, ''curate'' means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy who are ass ...

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. He then served incumbencies in Rathcooney, Kill O'The Grange (County Dublin) and Hillsborough. Since Glenfield's installation he has been instrumental in reforming the administrative councils that comprise the

Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh The United Dioceses of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh is a diocese of the Church of Ireland located in central Ireland. It is in the ecclesiastical province of Armagh. It is one of eleven Anglican dioceses in the island of Ireland. The geographica ...

. He is a

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renowned for his biblical teaching, before elevation to the

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. He is a supporter of

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and in 2014 visited the

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, which left the Episcopal Church of the

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as a result of doctrinal differences. He attended GAFCON III, held on 17–22 June 2018, in Jerusalem. This move was criticized by some members of the clergy.IRELAND: Bishops' presence at Gafcon an "absolute disgrace", Virtue Online, 24 June 2018
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Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Glenfield, Ferran 1954 births Alumni of Queen's University Belfast Alumni of Trinity College Dublin 21st-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Bishops of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh Living people Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Evangelical Anglican bishops Anglican realignment people Place of birth missing (living people)