The Ven. Godfrey Owen Stone,

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(born 15 December 1949) is a British clergyman who was Archdeacon of Stoke from 2002 until 2013. He was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are Consecration in Christianity, consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the religious denomination, denominationa ...

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in 1981, and

priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deity, deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in parti ...

in 1982. After 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 ...

Rushden Rushden is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the North Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England, around east of Northampton. The parish is on the border with Bedfordshire, north of B ...

-with-

Newton Bromswold Newton Bromswold is a village and civil parish about east of Rushden in North Northamptonshire, England, adjacent to the border with Bedfordshire. At the 2001 census the parish's population was 62 people in 27 households. The population rema ...

he was

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of Pastoral Studies at

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from 1987 to 1992. He was

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at Bucknall from 1992 to 2002; and

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Stoke-upon-Trent Stoke-upon-Trent, also known as Stoke, is one of the six towns that along with Hanley, Staffordshire, Hanley, Burslem, Fenton, Staffordshire, Fenton, Longton, Staffordshire, Longton and Tunstall, Staffordshire, Tunstall form the city of Stoke-o ...

from 1998 to 2002.‘STONE, Ven. Godfrey Owen’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 201
accessed 1 Feb 2017
/ref> He has been chair of the ecumenical Christian charity 'The Friends of the Church in China' since 2017 (www.thefcc.org).

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1949 births Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society Living people Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Archdeacons of Stoke {{Canterbury-archdeacon-20C-stub