Michael John Everitt (born 26 August 1968, in

Banbury Banbury is a historic market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, South East England. It had a population of 54,335 at the 2021 Census. Banbury is a significant commercial and retail centre for the surrounding area of north Oxfordshire ...

) is a British Anglican priest.

Early life and education

Everitt was born on 26 August 1968 in

, Oxfordshire, England. He was educated at Warriner School,

Bloxham Bloxham is a village and civil parish in northern Oxfordshire several miles from the Cotswolds, about southwest of Banbury. It is on the edge of a valley and overlooked by Hobb Hill. The village is on the A361 road. The 2011 Census recorded ...

and

Banbury School Wykham Park Academy is a coeducational academy school situated on Ruskin Road, in the Easington ward of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. The school has a sixth form In the education systems of England, Northern Ireland, Wales, Jamaica, Trini ...

. He studied at

King's College, London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

, graduating with a

Bachelor of Divinity In Western universities, a Bachelor of Divinity or Baccalaureate in Divinity (BD or BDiv; la, Baccalaureus Divinitatis) is a postgraduate academic degree awarded for a course taken in the study of divinity or related disciplines, such as theology ...

(BD) degree and the

Associate of King's College The Associateship or Associate of King's College (AKC) award was the degree-equivalent qualification of King's College London from 1833. It is the original qualification that King's awarded to its students. In current practice, it is an optional ...

(AKC) award in 1990. That year, he entered the

Queen's College, Birmingham Queen's College was a medical school in central Birmingham, England, and a predecessor college of the University of Birmingham. It was founded by surgeon William Sands Cox in 1825 as The Birmingham Medical School, a residential college for medi ...

to train for ordination. He spent 1991 at the

Venerable English College, Rome The Venerable English College (), commonly referred to as the English College, is a Catholic seminary in Rome, Italy, for the training of priests for England and Wales. It was founded in 1579 by William Allen on the model of the English College, ...

, a Roman Catholic seminary in Rome, before returning to Birmingham to complete a Diploma in Theology (DipTh) in 1992.

Ordained ministry

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 1992, his first post was as a curate at St Andrew's Cleveleys. After this he was succentor and then precentor of Diocese of the Free State, Bloemfontein Cathedral. From 1998 to 2002 he was chaplain at St Martin's College, St Martin's College, Lancaster then Rector (ecclesiastical), rector of St Wilfrid's Standish, Greater Manchester, Standish until his archdeacon’s appointment. From 2011 to 2019, Everitt was Archdeacon of Lancaster in the Diocese of Blackburn. In April 2019, it was announced that he would be the next canon pastor of Durham Cathedral in the Diocese of Durham: he was installed as a canon residentiary at Durham Cathedral on 22 September 2019.

References

1968 births Living people People from Banbury Alumni of King's College London Alumni of the Queen's Foundation Archdeacons of Lancaster {{York-archdeacon-stub