Calvin T. Samuel is a Barbados-born

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minister and

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, working mostly in the UK. He has served as Director of the Wesley Study Centre at

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and Principal of the

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. Samuel was born in

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. His father and mother were, respectively, a politician and teacher. He grew up in both

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and

in the Caribbean. His early career was in banking before he moved to the UK in 1993 to study for an undergraduate degree in Theology and Pastoral Studies at Nazarene Theological College,

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. He subsequently gained an MBA from

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and completed a PhD at

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. Initially a licensed minister of the Wesleyan Holiness Church, he was received into full connexion and ordained into the Methodist Church in 2001. He was subsequently a member of Methodism’s Faith and Order Committee.

Career in Higher Education

Samuel was Assistant Director of Research and Faculty Administration at

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and a visiting lecturer in Biblical studies at Nazarene Theological College alongside his ministry. He was later appointed New Testament Tutor at

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, London. He then became Director of the Wesley Study Centre, based at St John's College,

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and was appointed Academic Dean of its Cranmer Hall ministerial training college. In 2017 he was appointed Principal of the

until February 2019 when, during an internal investigation into alleged misconduct, his resignation was accepted.

Publications and media

Samuel has published two books: * * From time to time he has also broadcast devotional items on

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and

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Samuel, Calvin T. Living people Methodist ministers Alumni of the University of Manchester Alumni of King's College London Staff of Cranmer Hall, Durham Year of birth missing (living people)