Albert Peter Hall (2 September 1930 – 27 December 2013) was the Bishop of Woolwich from 1984 until 1996 and the first area bishop under the 1991 area scheme. Hall was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn and

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. Ordained in 1956 he began his ministry as a

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at St Martin's, Birmingham after which he was the

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and then

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, Birmingham before his ordination to the episcopate. A keen mountain walker, he was married with two sons Debrett's People of Today London,1992 Debrett's and in retirement continued to serve the church as an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Birmingham.

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1930 births 2013 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Bishops of Woolwich 20th-century Church of England bishops People educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub