Christopher Sidney Sims (born 9 September 1949,

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), is an

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priest, a retired Archdeacon of Walsall. Sims was son of clergyman the Reverend Sidney Sims and his wife Dorothy. He was educated at

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and

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priest in 1977. After a curacy at Walmsley,

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(1977-80), he held his first incumbency as Vicar at

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(1980-88). He then served in

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as Vicar of St Michael Stanwix with St Mark,

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(1988-96), Rural Dean of Carlisle (1990-95), honorary Canon of Carlisle Cathedral (1991-96), priest-in-charge at All Hallows and Torpenhow, Boltonsgate with Ireby and Uldale,

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with Isel and Setmuir Pits (1996-2001), and Team Rector of Binsey Team Ministry (2001-03) and in

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(2003-09), also serving as Rural Dean of Shrewsbury (2008-09) before his appointment as

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/ref> Sims retired on 29 September 2014. Sims married in 1972 Catherine Virginia Thomson with whom he has three sons.

References

1949 births Alumni of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford 20th-century English Anglican priests 21st-century English Anglican priests Living people People from Shipley, West Yorkshire Archdeacons of Walsall {{anglican-stub