Roger Charles Bush (born 22 November 1956) is a British Anglican

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 deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particu ...

. Having been a parish priest, he was

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from 2006 to 2012. He was then

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, the head of

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in the

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, from 2012 to 2022.

Biography

Bush was born on 22 November 1956. He was educated at Fakenham Grammar School, a

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Fakenham Fakenham is a market town and civil parish in Norfolk, England. It is situated on the River Wensum, about north west of Norwich. The town is the junction of several local roads, including the A148 from King's Lynn to Cromer, the A1067 to Norwi ...

, Norfolk. He studied at King's College London, graduating with a

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(BA) degree in 1978. From 1983 to 1986, he trained for ordination at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield. He also studied at the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

, graduating with a further BA in 1985. Bush 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 the

as a

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in 1986 and as a

in 1987. He was 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 ...

Newbold, Derbyshire Newbold is a village north of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, which in 2001 had a population of just under 8,000.team vicar Vicar is a title given to certain parish priests in the Church of England and other Anglican churches. It has played a significant role in Anglican church organisation in ways that are different from other Christian denominations. The title is v ...

in the Parish of the Resurrection, Leicester, and then

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Redruth Redruth ( , kw, Resrudh) is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England. The population of Redruth was 14,018 at the 2011 census. In the same year the population of the Camborne-Redruth urban area, which also includes Carn Brea, Illogan a ...

, Cornwall. He was a

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from 2004 to 2006, when he became

. On 22 September 2012, he was instituted

. He retied from full-time ministry at the end of September 2022.

References

1956 births Alumni of King's College London Alumni of the University of Leeds Alumni of the College of the Resurrection Deans of Truro Living people Archdeacons of Cornwall 20th-century English Anglican priests 21st-century English Anglican priests {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub