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Provosts And Deans Of Coventry
The Dean of Coventry is based at Coventry Cathedral in the West Midlands, UK and is the head of the Chapter at the cathedral, which was created in 1918 from the parish church of St Michael. The current dean is John Witcombe. Prior to appointment of the first dean the function was carried out by a sub-dean or a provost. List of incumbents Sub-Deans *1918–1922 William Haighton Chappel *1922–1923 Harry Woollcombe *1924–1929 St Barbe Holland *1929–''1931'' Cyril Morton ''(became Provost)'' Provosts *''1931''–1932 Cyril Morton *1933–1958 Richard Howard *1958–1981 Harold Williams *1982–1987 Colin Semper *1988–''2000'' John Petty Deans *''2000''–2000 John Petty ''(for 9 days)'' *2000–2001 Stuart Beake ''(Acting Dean)'' *2001–2012 John Irvine *2012-2013 Tim Pullen ''(Acting Dean)'' *2013–present John Witcombe John Julian Witcombe (born 1 March 1959) is the Dean of Coventry in the Church of England. Ministry After ordination in 1984, he served i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coventry Cathedral -from Above-8
Coventry ( or ) is a city in the West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its city status until the Middle Ages. The city is governed by Coventry City Council. Formerly part of Warwickshire until 1451, Coventry had a population of 345,328 at the 2021 census, making it the tenth largest city in England and the 12th largest in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest city in the West Midlands region, after Birmingham, from which it is separated by an area of green belt known as the Meriden Gap, and the third largest in the wider Midlands after Birmingham and Leicester. The city is part of a larger conurbation known as the Coventry and Bedworth Urban Area, which in 2021 had a population of 389,603. Coventry is east-south-east of Birmingham, south-west of Leicester, north of Warwick and north-west of London. Coventry is also the most central city in England, being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 current bishop is Christopher Cocksworth and the current dean is John Witcombe. The city has had three cathedrals. The first was St Mary's, a monastic building, of which only a few ruins remain. The second was St Michael's, a 14th-century Gothic church later designated as a cathedral, which remains a ruined shell after its bombing during the Second World War. The third is the new St Michael's Cathedral, built immediately adjacent after the destruction of the former. The ruined cathedral is a symbol of war time destruction and barbarity, but also of peace and reconciliation. St Mary's Priory Coventry had a medieval cathedral that survived until the Reformation. This was St Mary's Priory and Cathedral, 1095 to 1102, when Robert de Limesey m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Witcombe
John Julian Witcombe (born 1 March 1959) is the Dean of Coventry in the Church of England. Ministry After ordination in 1984, he served in Birtley, Tyne and Wear, Birtley, County Durham before moving to be the team Vicar of St Barnabas, Inham Nook, Nottingham. He was then vicar of St Luke’s, Lodge Moor, Sheffield the Rector (ecclesiastical), Team Rector in Uxbridge and later Dean of St John's College, Nottingham. Before his appointment as Dean of Coventry, Witcombe was the Diocese of Gloucester's Diocesan Directors of Ordinands and then Director of Discipleship and Ministry, and a Canon (priest), Residentiary Canon at Gloucester Cathedral. He is a member of General Synod and is a national advisor for selecting potential clergy for the Church of England. He was instituted Dean of Coventry on 19 January 2013. Works Editor of ''The Curate's Guide: From calling to first parish'' (Church House Publishing 2005) Author with John Leach of Grove books 'Hanging on to God: sustaining min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Haighton Chappel
William Haighton Chappel (22 May 1860, Camborne – 11 July 1922, Coventry) was an Anglican priest and educator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Chappel was the eldest son of Rev. William Pester Chappel, Rector of Camborne and Canon of Truro Cathedral. He was educated at Marlborough College and Worcester College, Oxford, matriculating on 16 October 1879 and being awarded a scholarship. Graduating B.A. in classics in 1883 (M.A. 1887), Chappel graduated from Theological College in 1884, and was ordained in 1888. He was a master at Marlborough from 1884 to 1896, and Headmaster of the King's School, Worcester from 1896 to 1919. Chappel was Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Worcester 1902–1905, and to the Bishop of Birmingham 1905–1909, and became a Canon of Worcester Cathedral in 1907. When Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs, Bishop of Worcester, was translated to become the first bishop of the newly revived see of Coventry in 1918, he persuaded Chappel to accompany him as the fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Woollcombe
Henry St John Stirling Woollcombe (27 December 1869 – 1 December 1941) was the inaugural Bishop of Whitby from 1923 until 1939; and also of Selby. Born into a clerical family, he was educated at Clifton College and Keble College, Oxford before being ordained in 1895. After a curacy in Stepney he became head of the Oxford House University Settlement in nearby Bethnal Green. A brief spell as chaplain to Cosmo Gordon Lang (Archbishop of York) was followed by a decade as the parish priest of Armley. Promotion to be the Sub Dean of Diocese of Coventry in 1922 was swiftly followed by elevation to the episcopate. After 16 years at Whitby he made a sideways move to become Bishop of Selby- a post he held only for 18 months. His ''Times Time is the continued sequence of existence and events, and a fundamental quantity of measuring systems. Time or times may also refer to: Temporal measurement * Time in physics, defined by its measurement * Time standard, civil time speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Barbe Holland
Herbert St Barbe Holland (15 October 1882 - 9 June 1966) was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century. Holland was born in 1882, the youngest of three sons of Canon William Lyall Holland of Cornhill-on-Tweed. He was educated at Durham School and University College, Oxford and ordained in 1908. Following a curacy at Jesmond Parish Church he became Vicar of St Luke's, Newcastle upon Tyne. From 1917 until 1924 he was Secretary of the Church Missionary Society and then Sub-Dean of Coventry. Finally (before his ordination to the episcopate) he was rector of Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire and, from 1929, the Archdeacon of Warwick. In 1936 he became Bishop of Wellington, NZ. A decade later he returned to England as Dean of Norwich. A friend of Clement Attlee, he died in 1966, aged 83 and later had a street in Norwich named in his honour. His son was the Rt Revd John Holland, Bishop of Polynesia The Diocese of Polynesia, or the Tikanga Pasefika serves Anglicans in Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Morton (priest)
Cyril Evelyn Morton (1885 – 27 July 1932) was an Anglican priest. Educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and Ripon College Cuddesdon, he was ordained in 1908 and began his ordained ministry with curacies in Hampstead and Roehampton. He was then an incumbent at Clifton On Dunsmore and Holy Trinity, Beauchamp Avenue, Leamington Spa. In 1929 he became Sub-Dean of the Coventry Cathedral and, in 1931, following a change in the law, the cathedral's first provost. He is buried in the churchyard at Lillington Lillington may refer to: Places England * Lillington, Dorset, a hamlet in Dorset * Lillington, Warwickshire, a suburb of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire * Lillington Gardens, a housing estate in Pimlico, London Elsewhere * Lillington, North Carolina ..., Warwickshire.Tributes to the late Provost of Coventry, ''Leamington Spa Courier'', 5 August 1932, p6. References 1885 births Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon Provosts a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Howard (priest)
Richard Thomas Howard (12 June 1884 – 1 November 1981) was an Anglican priest and author. During the Coventry blitz on 14–15 November 1940 he went on the roof to try save the cathedral but when many incendiary bombs descended he had no choice but to rescue some important artefacts and then retreat to his Anderson shelter. He is particularly remembered for advocating forgiveness and reconciliation, having 'Father Forgive' inscribed in the ruined chancel of the cathedral (rather than 'Father Forgive them', the words of Jesus on the Cross) to remind us that we all need forgiveness, not just those who have harmed us, and for his determination to rebuild a Cathedral which would speak of Christ's resurrection, as the old one mirrored his Crucifixion. With the City Council he led the way in town twinning, beginning with Kiel, which had been similarly bombed. Howard was educated at Monkton Combe School and Jesus College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1908 and began his ministry as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Williams (priest)
Harold Claude Noel Williams (6 December 1914 – 5 April 1990), commonly known as H. C. N. Williams or Bill Williams, was an Anglican priest and author. Williams was born in Grahamstown, South Africa and educated at Graeme College (South Africa) and Durham University, where he was a Theological Exhibitioner at Hatfield College. He was ordained in 1938 and began his ministry as a curate at St Mary with St Paul's Weeke near Winchester in England. From 1941 to 1949 he was Principal of St Matthew's College in South Africa. He then returned to England and held incumbencies at St Bartholomew's Hyde, Winchester and St Mary's, Southampton. In 1958 he became Provost of the Cathedral Church of St Michael, Coventry, a position he held for 23 years."Provost to retire". The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Semper
Colin Douglas Semper (5 February 1938 – 13 April 2022) was an English Anglican priest. Semper was educated at Lincoln Grammar School and Keble College, Oxford, and was ordained in 1963. He began his ordained ministry as a curate at Holy Trinity with St Mary's in Guildford. He was Recruitment and Selection Secretary for the Advisory Council for the Church's Ministry until 1969 when he became Head of Religious Programmes for BBC Radio and Deputy Head of Religious Broadcasting for the BBC, positions he held for 13 years. He then became Provost of the Cathedral Church of St Michael, Coventry. and after that Treasurer of Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United .... In retirement he continued to serve as a non-stipendiary priest at St Mary's Frensham. Notes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Petty (priest)
John Fitzmaurice Petty (9 March 1935 – 23 August 2017) was an Anglican priest. Petty was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Cuddesdon Theological College in Oxford and ordained in 1967 after an earlier military career with the Royal Engineers lasting 11 years. He was a curate at St Cuthbert's Sheffield and then St Helier, Morden. From 1975 to 1987 he was Vicar of St John the Evangelist, Hurst Cross, Ashton-under-Lyne when he became Provost of the Cathedral Church of St Michael, Coventry and was later appointed Dean of Coventry, a position he held until his retirement in 2000. Petty later became chaplain at Mount House Residential Home in Shrewsbury, a trustee of the Simeon Trust, and assisted at St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury St Chad's Church occupies a prominent position in Shrewsbury, the county town of Shropshire. The current church building was built in 1792, and with its distinctive round shape and high tower it is a well-known landmark in the town. It faces Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Beake
Stuart Alexander Beake (born 18 September 1949) is a British Anglican priest; he served as Archdeacon of Surrey from 2005 until his retirement on 19 September 2017. He was educated at King's College School, Emmanuel College, Cambridge Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. The site on which the college sits was once a priory for Dominican mon ... and Cuddesdon College, Oxford.‘BEAKE, Ven. Stuart Alexander’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016 References 1949 births Living people People educated at King's College School, London Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Archdeacons of Surrey {{Christianity-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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