David Sharples AKC (born 17 March 1958) is the current

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and former

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. He was educated at

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and ordained after a period of study at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield in 1983. After a curacy at St Mary the Virgin,

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he was

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of St Anne's,

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from 1987 to 2002; and Director of Ordinands for the

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from 2002.‘Sharples, David John’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 201
accessed 18 June 2013
/ref> A keen supporter of

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, he is married with two sons.

References

1958 births Living people Alumni of King's College London Associates of King's College Alumni of the College of the Resurrection Archdeacons of Salford Archdeacons of Rochdale {{York-archdeacon-stub