Peter Elliott (born 14 June 1941) is a retired English Anglican priest who was the
Archdeacon of Northumberland
The Archdeacon of Northumberland is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Newcastle. As such she or he is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy within the geographical area of the archdeaconry.
History
The firs ...
from 1993 to 2005.
Elliott was educated at the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Horncastle and
Hertford College, Oxford
Hertford College ( ), previously known as Magdalen Hall, is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It is located on Catte Street in the centre of Oxford, directly opposite the main gate to the Bodleian Library. The col ...
. He was
ordained
Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform var ...
in 1965.
[ Crockford's online Accessed by subscription on 1 April 2013 at 16:42 GMT] Following
curacies at
All Saints' Church, Gosforth
All Saints’ Church, Gosforth is a Church of England (Anglican) parish church in the suburb of Gosforth, which lies to the north of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne. All Saints’ is part of the Diocese of Newcastle and within the Newcastle Ce ...
, and St Peter's,
Balkwell, he held
incumbencies in
Elswick,
North Gosforth
North Gosforth is a suburb and civil parish in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne in Tyne and Wear, England. It is north of the city centre
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and
Embleton before his appointment as an
archdeacon
An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that of m ...
.
References
1941 births
Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford
Archdeacons of Northumberland
Living people
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