Michael Eric Marshall (born 14 April 1936) is a British Anglican bishop who served as the eighth
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. Tw ...
in 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 ...
from 1975 to 1984.
Education and career
Marshall was educated at
Lincoln Grammar School
Lincoln Grammar School or Lincoln Free School was formed as the result of the amalgamation of the Lincoln City Free School and the Lincoln Chapter Grammar School. The amalgamation occurred in January 1584, but the two schools may have been effec ...
and
Christ's College, Cambridge
Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 170 graduate students. The college was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as ...
. He was ordained a deacon at
Michaelmas
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(26 September) 1960 by the Rt. Rev.
Leonard Wilson
John Leonard Wilson (23 November 189722 July 1970) was an Anglican bishop. He was Bishop of Singapore from 1941 to 1949 during the time of Japanese occupation and subsequently Dean of Manchester and Bishop of Birmingham.
Education
Wilson was ...
Birmingham
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, and was ordained a priest the following Michaelmas (25 September 1961) by the Rt. Rev. Michael Parker,
Bishop of Aston
The Bishop of Aston is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Birmingham, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after Aston, an area of the City of Birmingham; the See was ...
, at
St Agatha's Church, Sparkbrook
The Church of St Agatha () is a parish church in the Church of England in Sparkbrook in Birmingham, England.
Background
It was designed by W. H. Bidlake and is now a Grade I listed building.
Made of brick and decorated with stone, building s ...
.
His first ministry position was as a
curate
A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''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 w ...
at St Peter's Church, Spring Hill, after which he was temporarily a tutor at
Ely Theological College
Ely Theological College was a college in Ely, Cambridgeshire, for training clergy in the Church of England. Founded in 1876 by James Woodford, Anglican Bishop of Ely, the college had a strong Anglo-Catholic tradition. Ely's "ritualistic" (i. ...
and then a
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 ...
at the
University of London
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. Appointed
vicar
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of
All Saints, Margaret Street
All Saints, Margaret Street, is a Grade I listed Anglo-Catholic church in London. The church was designed by the architect William Butterfield and built between 1850 and 1859. It has been hailed as Butterfield's masterpiece and a pioneering bui ...
, London, in 1969, he was consecrated
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. Tw ...
by the Most Rev.
Donald Coggan
Frederick Donald Coggan, Baron Coggan, (9 October 1909 – 17 May 2000) was the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury from 1974 to 1980.
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United ...
six years later, on 23 September 1975.
Resigning in 1984, he became Director of the Anglican Institute in
St Louis, Missouri
St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which e ...
, in the United States of America before returning to England to be Director of Evangelism at Chichester Theological College. He then became, first, priest in charge and, later, rector of
Holy Trinity, Sloane Street
The Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity with Saint Jude, Upper Chelsea, commonly called Holy Trinity Sloane Street or Holy Trinity Sloane Square, is a Church of England parish church in London, England. It was built in 1888–90 at th ...
, in London, from 1997 to 2007.
In 2003 Marshall founded the
Awareness Foundation
The Awareness Foundation, formerly the Trinity Foundation for Christianity and Culture, is a Christian charity that was established in England in 2003 for the purpose of peace-building between the Middle East and West.
Overview
The Awareness Fou ...
with the Rev.
Nadim Nassar
The Revd Nadim Nassar (born 1964) is a Syrian-British Anglican priest, who is the Executive Director and Founder of the Awareness Foundation. He established the Awareness Foundation in 2003 with Bishop Michael Marshall in response to the growing ...
and is currently its President Emeritus and co-author of the Awareness Course. His SPA (Scripture Prayer Action) ministry was developed with the Rev. Soon Han Choi and was initially based at the
Church of the Annunciation, Marble Arch
The Church of the Annunciation, Marble Arch, is a Church of England parish church in the Marble Arch district of London, England. It is dedicated to the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is a Gothic revival building designed by Sir ...
, in London.
From 2011 to 2013 Marshall served as interim rector of the Episcopal
Church of the Heavenly Rest
The Church of the Heavenly Rest is an Episcopal church located on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 90th Street, opposite Central Park and the Carnegie Mansion, on the Upper East Side of New York City. The church is noted for the architecture of it ...
in
New York City
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