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Robert Aidan (Bob) Fitzharris (b August 1946) was the Archdeacon of Doncaster from 2001 to 2011. Fitzharris was educated at

St Anselm's College St Anselm's College is an 11–18 boys, Roman Catholic, grammar school and sixth form with academy status in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. It was established in 1933 and is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury. It is one of ...

and the

University of Sheffield , mottoeng = To discover the causes of things , established = – University of SheffieldPredecessor institutions: – Sheffield Medical School – Firth College – Sheffield Technical School – University College of Sheffield , type = Pu ...

. He was a

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from 1971 to 1987. He studied for the priesthood at

Lichfield Theological College Lichfield Theological College was founded in 1857 to train Anglican clergy to serve in the Church of England. It was located on the south side of the Cathedral Close in Lichfield, Staffordshire and closed in 1972. Notable staff * Cecil Cherrin ...

; and 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 va ...

in 1990. After a curacy at Dinnington he was

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from 1992 to 2001. ‘FITZHARRIS, Ven. Robert Aidan’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016 ; online edn, Nov 201
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1946 births People educated at St. Anselm's College Alumni of the University of Sheffield Archdeacons of Doncaster Alumni of Lichfield Theological College Living people English dentists {{York-archdeacon-stub