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Dean Of Birmingham
The Dean of Birmingham is the senior member of clergy responsible for St. Philip's Cathedral in Birmingham, England. Before 2000 the post was designated provost, which was the equivalent of a dean but used in the case of pro-cathedrals, such as Birmingham, which had originally been built as parish churches. __TOC__ List of provosts and deans Provosts *1931–1937 Hamilton Baynes *1937–1949 Harold Richards *1951–1962 Michael Clarke *1962–1972 George Sinker *1972–1986 Basil Moss *1986–2000 Peter Berry *2000–' Gordon Mursell ''(became Dean)'' Deans *''2002/3''–2005 Gordon Mursell ''(previously Provost)'' *2006–2009 Robert Wilkes *2010–2017 Catherine Ogle (installed and inducted in September 2010) *30 September 2017present Matt Thompson [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birmingham St Philip's Cathedral
Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands metropolitan county, and approximately 4.3 million in the Birmingham metropolitan area, wider metropolitan area. It is the ESPON metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom, largest UK metropolitan area outside of London. Birmingham is known as the second city of the United Kingdom. Located in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region of England, approximately from London, Birmingham is considered to be the social, cultural, financial and commercial centre of the Midlands. Distinctively, Birmingham only has small rivers flowing through it, mainly the River Tame, West Midlands, River Tame and its tributaries River Rea and River Cole, West Midlands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Sinker
George Sinker (5 May 1900 – 19 January 1986) was bishop of Nagpur and provost of Birmingham Cathedral. He was born in Hyderabad, India, the son of the Reverend R Sinker, and was educated at Rossall School and Brasenose College, Oxford. In 1924 he married Eva Margaret, daughter of Colonel C H Madden OBE MC. He served as a missionary for the Church Missionary Society in Kandy and Ceylon starting in 1921. In 1924 he was ordained in Bannu, North West Frontier Province, India. He moved to Peshawar in 1932. He was appointed headmaster of the Bishop Cotton School, Simla Shimla (; ; also known as Simla, the official name until 1972) is the capital and the largest city of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. In 1864, Shimla was declared as the summer capital of British India. After independence, th ..., in 1935, then Canon (priest), canon of the Cathedral Church of the Resurrection, Lahore, 1944, and general secretary of the Bible Society for India and Ceylon in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provosts And Deans Of Birmingham
The Dean of Birmingham is the senior member of clergy responsible for St. Philip's Cathedral in Birmingham, England. Before 2000 the post was designated provost, which was the equivalent of a dean but used in the case of pro-cathedrals, such as Birmingham, which had originally been built as parish churches. __TOC__ List of provosts and deans Provosts *1931–1937 Hamilton Baynes *1937–1949 Harold Richards *1951–1962 Michael Clarke *1962–1972 George Sinker *1972–1986 Basil Moss *1986–2000 Peter Berry *2000–' Gordon Mursell ''(became Dean)'' Deans *''2002/3''–2005 Gordon Mursell ''(previously Provost)'' *2006–2009 Robert Wilkes *2010–2017 Catherine Ogle (installed and inducted in September 2010) *30 September 2017present Matt Thompson [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Ecclesiastical Offices
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the largest branches of Christianity, with around 110 million adherents worldwide . Adherents of Anglicanism are called ''Anglicans''; they are also called ''Episcopalians'' in some countries. The majority of Anglicans are members of national or regional ecclesiastical provinces of the international Anglican Communion, which forms the third-largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. These provinces are in full communion with the See of Canterbury and thus with the Archbishop of Canterbury, whom the communion refers to as its ''primus inter pares'' (Latin, 'first among equals'). The Archbishop calls the decennial Lambeth Conference, chairs the meeting of primates, and is the presid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Thompson (priest)
Matthew Thompson (born 1968) is a British Anglican priest. Since 2017, he has been the Dean of Birmingham – head of the chapter of canons of St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham, Birmingham Cathedral and the most senior priest in the Anglican Diocese of Birmingham, Diocese of Birmingham. He was previously, since 2008, Vicar (Anglicanism), vicar of St Peter's Church, Bolton, Bolton Parish Church in the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, Diocese of Manchester. Early life and education Thompson was born in 1968 and grew up in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands. He studied theology and religious studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1990: as per tradition, his BA degree was promoted to a Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin), Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree in 1994. In 1991, he matriculated into Ridley Hall, Cambridge, an evangelical Anglican theological college, to train for ordained ministry. During this time he also cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Ogle
Catherine Ogle (born 12 May 1961) is a British Anglican priest. Since February 2017, she has been the Dean of Winchester. She was previously the Dean of Birmingham (2010–2017), and a parish priest in the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds and the Diocese of Wakefield. Early life Ogle was born on 12 May 1961 in Upminster, London. She is the daughter of Henry Charles Ogle and Josephine Ogle (née Bathard). She was educated at Perse School for Girls, an independent school in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. She studied at the University of Leeds, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and Westcott House. Ordained ministry She was ordained deacon in 1988, then served as assistant curate at St Mary's Church, Middleton, Leeds from 1988 to 1991. She then worked as a Religious Programmes Editor with BBC Leeds from 1991 to 1995. She was ordained priest in 1994 and served as priest in charge of Woolley with West Bretton from 1995 to 2001. Catherine became Vicar of Huddersfield in 2001. She was also c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wilkes (priest)
Robert Anthony 'Bob' Wilkes (born 2 September 1948) is an Anglican priest. From 2006 to 2009, he was Dean of Birmingham. He was latterly Vicar of St Michael at the North Gate in Oxford. Early life He was educated at Pocklington School and Trinity College, Oxford. Ordained ministry He was ordained in 1974 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Oswald, Netherton, Merseyside, after which he was its Vicar until 1981 when he became Chaplain to the Bishop of Liverpool. From 1985 to 1998 he was Regional Secretary for the CMS in Pakistan and the Middle East. In 1999 he became Team Rector for the Mossley Hill area of Liverpool. He was appointed to Dean of Birmingham Cathedral in 2006, serving for three years. He was latterly vicar of St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Mursell
Alfred Gordon Mursell (born 4 May 1949) is a retired British Anglican bishop and author. From 2005 to 2010, he was the Bishop of Stafford in the Church of England. Mursell was educated at Ardingly College and Brasenose College, Oxford.‘MURSELL, Rt Rev. (Alfred) Gordon’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 201 accessed 8 July 2012 Ordained in 1974 he began his career with a curacy at St Mary Walton, Liverpool and was then successively Vicar of St John's East Dulwich, a tutor at Wells Theological College, Team Rector of Stafford (1991–1999), Provost (1999–2002/3) and then Dean of Birmingham (2002/3–2005) before his ordination to the episcopate as the suffragan Bishop of Stafford The Bishop of Stafford is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after Stafford, the county town of Staffordshire. The Bis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Berry (priest)
Peter Austin Berry (27 April 1935 – 26 May 2018) was an Anglican clergyman who served as the Provost of Birmingham Cathedral. He was educated at Solihull School and Keble College, Oxford. Ordained in 1963 he began his career as Chaplain to the Bishop of Coventry and was then successively Midlands Regional Officer to the Community Relations Communion and a Canon Residentiary at Coventry Cathedral The Cathedral Church of Saint Michael, commonly known as Coventry Cathedral, is the seat of the Bishop of Coventry and the Diocese of Coventry within the Church of England. The cathedral is located in Coventry, West Midlands, England. The curren ... before his 13-year stint at Birmingham Cathedral. Notes 1935 births 2018 deaths Alumni of Keble College, Oxford People educated at Solihull School Provosts and Deans of Birmingham {{UK-reli-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil Moss (priest)
Basil Stanley Moss (7 October 1918 – 24 March 2006) was Provost of Birmingham Cathedral from 1972 to 1986. He was born in Salford as the son of Canon H. G. Moss and was educated at Canon Slade Grammar School, Bolton and Queen's College, Oxford. He was ordained as a priest in 1943 and was a tutor and sub-warden at Lincoln Theological College from 1945 to 1951. In 1950, he married Rachel Margaret Bailey. Appointed as senior tutor at St. Catharine's Cumberland Lodge, Windsor in 1951, he moved to be vicar of St. Nathaniel's Church, Bristol in 1953. Seven years later he became a Residentiary Canon of Bristol Cathedral, until in 1966 he was appointed chief secretary of the Advisory Council Churches Ministry. As Provost of Birmingham Cathedral (1972–86), he also was chairman of both the Birmingham Community Relations Council (1973–81) and the Birmingham Council of Christian Churches Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Clarke (priest)
Harold George Michael Clarke (29 September 1898 – 19 August 1978) was an Anglican priest and educator in the 20th century. Education Clarke was educated at St Paul's School, London. ''Who Was Who 1897–2007''. London, A & C Black, 2007 His education was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I, and he served with the 2nd Field Company Royal Engineers in France during 1918. After the war he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a first class in 1919 in the mathematics tripos part i, and a second class in 1921 in the history tripos part ii. Teaching career He was an Assistant Master at Winchester College from 1921 to 1932, when he was appointed Headmaster of Rossall School, serving for five years until 1937. In 1937 he became Headmaster of Repton School in Derbyshire. He led the school during one of the most difficult periods of its history, when mounting debts and falling numbers, together with the effects of the war, led to questions as to the continu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clergy
Clergy are formal leaders within established religions. Their roles and functions vary in different religious traditions, but usually involve presiding over specific rituals and teaching their religion's doctrines and practices. Some of the terms used for individual clergy are clergyman, clergywoman, clergyperson, churchman, and cleric, while clerk in holy orders has a long history but is rarely used. In Christianity, the specific names and roles of the clergy vary by denomination and there is a wide range of formal and informal clergy positions, including deacons, elders, priests, bishops, preachers, pastors, presbyters, ministers, and the pope. In Islam, a religious leader is often known formally or informally as an imam, caliph, qadi, mufti, mullah, muezzin, or ayatollah. In the Jewish tradition, a religious leader is often a rabbi (teacher) or hazzan (cantor). Etymology The word ''cleric'' comes from the ecclesiastical Latin ''Clericus'', for those belonging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
