Stephen Anthony (Steve) Wilcockson (b
Connah's Quay
Connah's Quay (), known locally as "The Quay" and formerly known as Wepre, is a town and community in Flintshire, on the River Dee and next to the border with England.
With a population of 16,771, it is the largest town in Flintshire. The ...
May 1951) is a British retired Anglican priest who served as the
Archdeacon of Doncaster
The Archdeacon of Doncaster is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Sheffield, responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy within the six Rural Dean, area deaneries: Adwick-le-Street, Doncaster, Snaith & Hatfield, T ...
from 2012 until 31 December 2019.
Wilcockson was educated at Birkenhead Park High Grammar School for Boys and the
University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948.
Nottingham's main campus (University Park Campus, Nottingh ...
. He studied for the priesthood at
Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
Wycliffe Hall () is a permanent private hall of the University of Oxford affiliated with the Church of England, specialising in philosophy, theology, and religion. It is named after the Bible translator and reformer John Wycliffe, who was mas ...
and 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 ...
in 1976. After curacies in
Pudsey
Pudsey is a market town in the City of Leeds borough in West Yorkshire, England. It is located midway between Bradford city centre and Leeds city centre. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it has a population of 25,393.
History
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and
Wandsworth
Wandsworth Town () is a district of south London, within the London Borough of Wandsworth southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
Toponymy
Wandsworth takes its name ...
he held
incumbencies at
Rock Ferry
Rock Ferry is an area of Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula, England. Administratively it is a ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. Before local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974, it was part of the county of Cheshire. At the ...
,
Lache
The Lache ( ; sometimes simply Lache) is a housing estate in the city of Chester, in Cheshire, United Kingdom, with a population of around 10,000. It is located approximately southwest of the ancient city, with good local transport links en r ...
-cum-Saltney and
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References
1951 births
Alumni of the University of Nottingham
Archdeacons of Doncaster
Alumni of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
Living people
People from Connah's Quay
People educated at Birkenhead Park School
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