Richard John Graham "Ricky" Panter (born 18 September 1948) is a British Anglican priest. He was Archdeacon of Liverpool from 2002 until 2017. Panter was educated at

Monkton Combe School (Thy Word is Truth) , established = , type = Public school Independent school Boarding school , founder = The Revd Francis Pocock , head_label = Head Master , head ...

, Worcester College of Education and

Oak Hill Theological College Oak Hill College is a conservative evangelical theological college located on Chase Side in Southgate, London, England. Its aim is to prepare men and women from the Church of England and Independent churches for ministry in the real world. ...

. After three years as a teacher 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 1977. After a

curacy 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 Holy Trinity,

Rusholme Rusholme () is an area of Manchester, England, two miles south of the city centre. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 13,643. Rusholme is bounded by Chorlton-on-Medlock to the north, Victoria Park and Longsight to the east, Fa ...

he was Assistant Vicar at St Cyprian with Christchurch, Edge Hill. He was

Vicar A vicar (; Latin: '' vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English pr ...

of St Andrews,

Clubmoor Clubmoor is a neighbourhood of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, in the Liverpool City Council ward of Clubmoor. It is part of the Liverpool Walton Parliamentary constituency. At the 2001 Census the population of Clubmoor ward was recorded as 1 ...

from 1985 to 1996; and then of St John and St James,

Bootle Bootle (pronounced ) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, which had a population of 51,394 in 2011; the wider Parliamentary constituency had a population of 98,449. Historically part of Lancashire, Bootle ...

until 2011.‘PANTER, Ven. Richard James Graham, (Ricky)’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, Nov 201
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1948 births Living people People educated at Monkton Combe School Archdeacons of Liverpool Alumni of the University of Worcester Alumni of Oak Hill College {{York-archdeacon-stub