Ripon College Cuddesdon is a
Church of England
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theological college
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in
Cuddesdon
Cuddesdon is a mainly rural village in South Oxfordshire centred ESE of Oxford. It has the largest Church of England clergy training centre, Ripon College Cuddesdon. Residents number approximately 430 in Cuddesdon's nucleated village centre a ...
, a village outside
Oxford
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, England. The College trains men and women for ministry in the Church of England: stipendiary, non-stipendiary, local ordained and lay ministry, through a wide range of flexible full-time and part-time programmes.
History
Ripon College Cuddesdon was formed from an amalgamation in 1975 of Cuddesdon College and Ripon Hall. The name of the college, which is incorporated by royal charter, deliberately contains no comma.
Cuddesdon College and links with Oxbridge
Samuel Wilberforce
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,
Bishop of Oxford
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, founded Cuddesdon College in April 1853, as the Oxford Diocesan Seminary to train graduates from
Oxford
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and
Cambridge
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. Its original buildings, designed by the Diocesan Architect for Oxford
G. E. Street, were built opposite the
Cuddesdon Palace
Cuddesdon Palace was the episcopal palace for the Bishop of Oxford, located near the village of Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire, England.
History
Cuddesdon Palace was completed by 1634 for John Bancroft, who was Bishop of Oxford from 1632 until 1641. In ...
. The
Neo-Gothic
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
buildings are regarded as the first important design by Street and influenced much of his later work. The College opened in June 1854 and quickly became known as Cuddesdon College. A larger chapel, built at first-floor level and with decorations by
Clayton and Bell
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, was added by Street in 1874–5. The northwest wing opposite the chapel, was built in 1904 by Spencer Slingsby Stallwood. The southeast wing in 1920 and the service wing in 1925. Traditionally, "Cuddesdon", as it is commonly known, was in the
Anglo-Catholic
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tradition of the
Church of England
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. The 1921 funeral of
Gilbert Middleton
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Gilbert was a son of Gilbert of Middleton and grandson of the Lord Chancellor Richard of Middleton. His father was dead by ...
at
St Chad's Church, Far Headingley was officiated by
Bishop James Seaton, then principal of Cuddesdon (1914 to 1928). Seaton had known Middleton when both were students at
Leeds Grammar School
Leeds Grammar School was an independent school founded 1552 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Originally a male-only school, in August 2005 it merged with Leeds Girls' High School to form The Grammar School at Leeds. The two schools physicall ...
. Seaton also officiated at the
Leeds
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wedding of Gilbert Middleton's daughter, Margaret Joyce, in January 1925. Middleton and his brother Noel were also friends with
Canon S.R. Driver who had known Seaton at
Christ Church, Oxford
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in the 1880s. The Middleton brothers attended Driver's funeral at Christ Church, Oxford in March 1914.
Ripon Hall
Ripon Hall was founded in
Ripon
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, Yorkshire, in 1897 or 1898. It was originally a hostel for theological students, known as Bishop's College, founded by
William Boyd Carpenter
William Boyd Carpenter (26 March 1841, Liverpool – 26 October 1918, Westminster) was a Church of England cleric who became Bishop of Ripon and Royal Chaplain to Queen Victoria.
Background
William Boyd Carpenter was the second son of the Revd ...
,
Bishop of Ripon
The Bishop of Ripon is an episcopal title which takes its name after the city of Ripon in North Yorkshire, England. The bishop is one of the area bishops of the Diocese of Leeds in the Province of York. The area bishop of Ripon has oversight o ...
. In 1902, it was merged with Lightfoot Hall,
Birmingham
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and became known as Ripon Clergy College. In 1919, the college moved from Ripon to a site in
Parks Road
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in
Oxford
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and was renamed Ripon Hall. There, it became known as a
liberal Anglican
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college.
In 1933, Ripon Hall moved again, this time to a house then known as Berkeley House at
Boars Hill
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, near Oxford, the former home of the 8th
Earl of Berkeley
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. The college remained there until the merger with Cuddesdon in 1975, when the site, renamed Foxcombe Hall, became the regional headquarters of the
Open University
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.
Ripon College Cuddesdon
The college incorporated the Oxford Ministry Course (OMC) in 2006 and the West of England Ministerial Training Course (WEMTC) in 2011, making it the largest provider of Anglican ordination training in the UK. The college partners the Diocese of Oxford in the delivery of Ordained Local Ministry training. In 2011 the college began a partnership with the
Church Missionary Society
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to deliver training for Ordained Pioneer Ministers – the first partnership of this kind that pairs a theological college with a missionary society. In 2005, the
Oxford Centre for Ecclesiology and Practical Theology (OxCEPT) was founded, which provides research and consultancy services to the wider church.
In 2010 the college launched a £10 million appeal to build a new education centre and chapel, as well as to raise funds for endowing bursaries, fellowships, studentships and research. The new
Bishop Edward King Chapel
Bishop Edward King Chapel is the chapel of Ripon College Cuddesdon, a Church of England theological college near Oxford, and of the Sisters of the Communities of St John Baptist and the Good Shepherd, a community of Anglican nuns.
The chapel i ...
and education centre (
Harriet Monsell
Harriet Monsell (1811 – 25 March 1883) founded the Community of St John Baptist, an order of Augustinian nuns in the Church of England dedicated to social service, which by her death had expanded to numerous houses, including in India and th ...
House) were completed and opened in 2013. The chapel – by architect Niall McLaughlin – has won many national and international awards for its design and building. Harriet Monsell House also included an enclosure for a community of five Anglican sisters who had moved from their base at Begbroke Priory. The sisters work alongside staff and students, supporting in prayer and spirituality, whilst continuing to develop their own ministries of spiritual direction.
Ripon College Cuddesdon became internationally more active during
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*Martin (disambiguation)
*Marten (disambiguation)
*Martin of Tours
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's period as principal. It works closely with the
Anglican Church in Hong Kong
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and continues to have links with Anglican colleges in the United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The college developed a programme of Christian-Muslim dialogue and related work, including a Visiting Fellowship for Islamic Scholars established at Cuddesdon in partnership with the Dubai-based Al Maktoum Institute.
Present
![Harriet Monsell House view](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Harriet_Monsell_House_view.jpg)
Men and women with a range of previous experience, not necessarily graduates, take a two or three-year course of study incorporating pastoral and academic training. There are just over fifty full-time students taking courses of study, either as matriculated students at
Oxford University
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or on courses accredited by
Durham University
, mottoeng = Her foundations are upon the holy hills (Psalm 87:1)
, established = (university status)
, type = Public
, academic_staff = 1,830 (2020)
, administrative_staff = 2,640 (2018/19)
, chancellor = Sir Thomas Allen
, vice_chan ...
through the Church of England
Common Awards Scheme which began in September 2014. Prior to this time, students not wishing to study at Oxford University were able to take courses of study accredited by
Oxford Brookes University
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. With the introduction of the Common Awards Scheme, Cuddesdon streamlined its Oxford University offerings. Where previously the college had offered three courses, the Bachelor of Theology (BTh), the Certificate in Theology (CTh) and the Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Theology, the BTh and CTh are no longer offered and Cuddesdon students wishing to study at Oxford University must now take the BA or MTh. The college also has occasional PhD students
Cuddesdon students come from across the spectrum of the Church of England but it retains a liturgical approach to worship and a broad approach to theology. It maintains a regular and disciplined approach to daily prayer and seeks to train students in a modern critical approach to the Christian tradition of the Church of England.
From 2008 the part-time Oxford Ministry Course, with about fifty ordinands, has been integrated into the college. The West of England Ministerial Training Course, which trains clergy and readers principally in the dioceses of Hereford and Gloucester was incorporated in 2011 and, in 2015, Portsmouth Pathway, which trains ordinands and readers in the Portsmouth diocese.
The college runs a fortnightly part-time programme in theology and ministry; the Cuddesdon School of Theology and Ministry. In 2011 a new programme of training for pioneer ministers was set up in partnership with the
Church Mission Society
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. The college has also hosted a research centre for practical theology, the
Oxford Centre for Ecclesiology and Practical Theology (OxCEPT). It is a sponsor of the Society for the Study of Anglicanism.
The principal, since 2015, has been
Humphrey Southern
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, former
Bishop of Repton
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; the vice principal is Professor Canon Mark Chapman, Dean of College and Reader in Modern Theology at the University of Oxford. Roger Latham is Director of the Gloucester & Hereford Pathway supported by Jacqui Sewell in the Ludlow teaching centre; Susie Snyder is the Academic Dean; Michael Brierley is the Director of Formation, Richard Wyld is Director of the Portsmouth Pathway; Hywel Clifford teaches Old Testament and Hebrew; Sarah Brush is Lecturer in Pastoral Theology and Director of the Context Based Pathway; Rebecca Dean is Tutor for Admissions and Lecturer in New Testament; Tobias Tanton is Lecturer in Doctrine; Michael Dormandy is Lecturer in New Testament; Jen Brown is Director of CSTM. Associate staff include Joanna Collicutt, Ray Gaston, Shemil Matthew, Elaine Flowers and Eddie Howells.
In 2012 the college became the new home of the Sisters of the
Community of St John Baptist
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History
The Community was founded in England in 1852 by Harriet Monsell (the first Supe ...
and the
Community of the Companions of Jesus the Good Shepherd The Community of the Companions of Jesus the Good Shepherd (CJGS) is an Anglican religious order founded in 1920, part of the Church of England. It is currently based near Kidlington, Oxfordshire.
Originally, the sisters were teachers living alone ...
as part of a major building programme to provide more teaching and residential accommodation, named after
Harriet Monsell
Harriet Monsell (1811 – 25 March 1883) founded the Community of St John Baptist, an order of Augustinian nuns in the Church of England dedicated to social service, which by her death had expanded to numerous houses, including in India and th ...
, founder of CSJB, as well as a new chapel named in honour of Bishop
Edward King, sometime principal of Cuddesdon.
Since 2011, the College has hosted the biennial international "Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives" conference, a gathering of scholars and practitioners across disciplines to discuss issues in contemporary congregational music. It also collaborates with th
Bible Reading Fellowshipfor an annual Festival of Prayer
Bishop Edward King Chapel
![Bishop Edward King Chapel (inside)-130928](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Bishop_Edward_King_Chapel_%28inside%29-130928.JPG)
The College is home to the Bishop Edward King Chapel. Generously funded by the Sisters of the Communities of St John The Baptist and the Good Shepherd, who moved from Begbroke Priory to live in the College community. The 120 seat Chapel is elliptical in shape and its distinctive dog-tooth stone banding both complements the existing buildings in its material but remains very distinct in its form. The Chapel has a lattice-work timber frame which comprises curved laminated columns and beams to support a 13m high roof. It also features a series of clerestory windows, to the top of the walls, and floods the interior with light. The Chapel has won several awards, including:
* BCIA Small Building Project of the Year award in the British Construction Industry Awards.
* The structural award and the Gold Medal at the Wood Awards.
* Oxford Preservation Trust Award
* RIBA Award for South East
On 1 February 2013, the Bishop Edward King Chapel was dedicated by
John Pritchard,
Bishop of Oxford
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, at a celebration of the
Eucharist
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for the
Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple
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.
Michael Perham
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,
Bishop of Gloucester
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, preached the sermon and
Colin Fletcher
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,
Bishop of Dorchester
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, assisted in the solemnities.
List of principals
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*
John Battersby Harford
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* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
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Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second ...
(1902 to 1919)
*
Henry Dewsbury Alves Major
Henry Dewsbury Alves "Hal" Major, (28 July 1871 – 26 January 1961) was a New Zealand Anglican clergyman and theologian. He was Principal of Ripon Hall, Oxford from 1919 to 1948: first, when it was Ripon Clergy College in Ripon, Yorkshire ...
(1919 to 1947)
*
Robert Douglas Richardson
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(1947 to 1952)
*
Geoffrey Allen (1952 to 1959)
*
Gordon Fallows (1959 to 1968)
*
Anthony Dyson (1969 to 1975)
;Cuddesdon Theological College
* A.A. Pott (1854 to 1859)
* H.H. Swinny, vicar of Wargrave (1859 to 1862)
*
Edward King (1863 to 1873)
*
Charles Wellington Furse
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He was born at Staines, the son of Jane Diana (Monsell) and the Rev. C. W. Furse, archdeacon of Westminster, and rector of St John's, Smith Square and de ...
(1873 to 1883)
* William Ducat (1883 to 1894)
*
John Johnston (1895 to 1913)
*
James Seaton (1914 to 1928)
*
Eric Graham
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Graham was born into an ecclesiastical family, a branch of the Dukes of Montrose settled in Ireland in the 18th century; his father was Malcolm ...
(1928 to 1944)
*
Kenneth Riches
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(1945 to 1952)
*
Edward Knapp-Fisher
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Life
Knapp-Fisher was born in Chatham, Kent, United Kingdom. His father was also an Anglican priest.
He was educated at The King's School, Worc ...
(1952 to 1960)
*
Robert Runcie
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(1960 to 1970)
*
Leslie Houlden
James Leslie Houlden (1 March 1929 – 3 December 2022) was a British Anglican priest and academic. He served as Principal of Cuddesdon Theological College from 1970 to 1975, and then, after its amalgamation with Ripon Hall, Principal of Ripon ...
(1970 to 1975)
;Ripon College Cuddesdon
*
Leslie Houlden
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(1975 to 1977)
*
David Wilcox (1977 to 1986)
*
John Garton (1986 to 1996)
*
John Clarke (1996 to 2004)
*
Martyn Percy Martyn may refer to:
*Martyn (surname), one of the Tribes of Galway and others
*Martyn (given name)
See also
*Martin (disambiguation)
*Marten (disambiguation)
*Martin of Tours
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(2004 to 2014)
*
Humphrey Southern
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(2015 to present)
Notable former staff
Among the college's previous staff members are:
*
Edward King, later
Bishop of Lincoln
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The present diocese covers the county of Lincolnshire and the unitary authority areas of North Lincolnshire and ...
*
Allan Webb (vice-principal 1864–1867), later
Bishop of Bloemfontein
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History
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and of
Grahamstown
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, subsequently
Dean of Salisbury
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List of deans
High Medieval
* Walter
* Osbert
*? ...
.
*
John Johnston (principal 1895–1913)
*
Charles Gore
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, successively
Bishop of Worcester
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,
Birmingham
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and
Oxford
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and Founder of the
Community of the Resurrection
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, Mirfield.
*
Robert Runcie
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,
Archbishop of Canterbury
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: When Runcie retired from the archbishopric, he was created a
life peer
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as Baron Runcie, of Cuddesdon in the County of Oxfordshire.
*
John Clarke, Dean of
Wells Cathedral
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.
*
Paula Gooder
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, Tutor in Biblical Studies from 1995 to 2001.
*
Charlotte Methuen
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, lecturer in church history
Notable alumni
:''See also
:Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon.''
*
Simon Aiken –
Dean of Kimberley
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*
Walter Baddeley
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–
Bishop of Melanesia,
Whitby
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*
Roly Bain
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His father was Kenneth Br ...
- clown-priest
*
Timothy Bavin
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Early life and education
Bavin was ...
OSB –
Bishop of Johannesburg,
Bishop of Portsmouth and, later, monk of
Alton Abbey
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.
*
Chris Bryant
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–
MP for
Rhondda
Rhondda , or the Rhondda Valley ( cy, Cwm Rhondda ), is a former coalmining area in South Wales, historically in the county of Glamorgan. It takes its name from the River Rhondda, and embraces two valleys – the larger Rhondda Fawr valley ('' ...
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Richard Chartres
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Bishop of London
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
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Owen Chadwick
William Owen Chadwick (20 May 1916 – 17 July 2015) was a British Anglican priest, academic, rugby international,[David Chillingworth
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Primus of the Scottish Episcipal Church
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Geoffrey Clayton –
Archbishop of Cape Town
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Harold de Soysa
Charles Harold Wilfred de Soysa MA (1907-1971) was the first Ceylonese Anglican Bishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Born to Sir Wilfred and Lady Evelyn de Soysa, he was educated at Royal College, Colombo and graduated from Oriel College, Oxford o ...
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Anglican Bishop of Colombo
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John Delight
The Ven. John David Delight (24 August 1925 - 16 February 2013) was a British clergyman who served as Archdeacon of Stoke 1982 to 1989.
He was educated at Christ's Hospital, the University of Liverpool, Oak Hill Theological College and the Open ...
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Archdeacon of Stoke (1982-1989)
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Philip Egerton – founder of
Bloxham School
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Austin Farrer
Austin Marsden Farrer (1 October 1904 – 29 December 1968) was an English Anglican philosopher, theologian, and biblical scholar. His activity in philosophy, theology, and spirituality led many to consider him one of the greatest figures of 20 ...
– Warden of
Keble College, Oxford
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Nicholas Frayling –
Dean of Chichester
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Cyril Garbett
Cyril Forster Garbett (6 February 1875 – 31 December 1955) was an Anglican bishop and author. He was successively the Bishop of Southwark, the Bishop of Winchester and the Archbishop of York from 1942 to 1955.
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Garbett was born in ...
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Archbishop of York
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(1942–1955)
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John Hall John Hall may refer to:
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* John Hall (NYU President) (fl. c. 1890), American academic
* John A. Hall (born 1949), sociology professor at McGill University, Montreal
* John F. Hall (born 1951), professor of classics at Brigham Young Unive ...
- formerly Dean of
Westminster Abbey
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David Hand –
Archbishop of Papua New Guinea
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Richard Harries
Richard Douglas Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth, (born 2 June 1936) is a retired bishop of the Church of England and former British Army officer. He was the Bishop of Oxford from 1987 to 2006. From 2008 until 2012 he was the Gresham Profes ...
– formerly
Bishop of Oxford
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(1987–2005)
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John Hind –
Bishop of Chichester
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Graham James – formerly
Bishop of Norwich
The Bishop of Norwich is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Norwich in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers most of the county of Norfolk and part of Suffolk. The bishop of Norwich is Graham Usher.
The see is in the ...
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Keith Jones –
Dean of York
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People
* Dean (given name)
* Dean (surname), a surname of Anglo-Saxon English origin
* Dean (South Korean singer), a stage name for singer Kwon Hyuk
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Cosmo Gordon Lang –
Archbishop of York
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(1909–28),
Archbishop of Canterbury
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(1928–1942)
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John Langdon
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second ...
, Royal Marine officer at D-Day, later became an Anglican priest
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Diarmaid MacCulloch – Professor of church history at the University of Oxford
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Michael Mayne
Michael Clement Otway Mayne, (10 September 1929 – 22 October 2006) was an English priest of the Church of England who served as the Dean of Westminster.
Early life
Michael Clement Otway Mayne was born at Harlestone, Northamptonshire, the ...
– formerly Dean of
Westminster Abbey
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(1986–1996)
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Merivale Molyneux –
Bishop of Melanesia
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John Packer
John Richard Packer (born 10 October 1946) is a retired British Anglican bishop. He was the only Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, serving from the renaming of the diocese from Ripon in 2000 to his 2014 retirement (prior to his former diocese's merg ...
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Bishop of Ripon and Leeds
The Bishop of Ripon was a diocesan bishop's title which took its name after the city of Ripon in North Yorkshire, England.
History
Though one ancient Bishop of Ripon is known, the modern see of Ripon was established in 1836 from parts of th ...
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Michael Perham
Michael Perham (born 16 March 1992) is an English sailor and adventurer from Potters Bar. In 2007 at the age of 14 he became the youngest person in the world to successfully sail across the Atlantic Ocean single-handedly, beating the record se ...
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Bishop of Gloucester
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The diocese covers the County of Gloucestershire and part of the County of Worcestershire. The see's centre of governan ...
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Stephen Platten
Stephen George PlattenFSA(born 17 May 1947, in Southgate) is a retired Anglican bishop. He was the last diocesan Bishop of Wakefield in the Church of England. He was consecrated in this role on 19 July 2003 and immediately prior to that was Dea ...
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Bishop of Wakefield
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Anthony Priddis – formerly
Bishop of Hereford
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Michael Ramsey
Arthur Michael Ramsey, Baron Ramsey of Canterbury, (14 November 1904 – 23 April 1988) was an English Anglican bishop and life peer. He served as the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury. He was appointed on 31 May 1961 and held the office until 1 ...
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Archbishop of Canterbury
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(1961–1974)
*Howard E. Root – Dean of
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
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(1956–66), Professor of Theology,
University of Southampton
, mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour
, type = Public research university
, established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...
(1966–81) and Director of the
Anglican Centre in Rome
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It was founded in 1966 with the encouragement of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canter ...
(1981–91)
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John Ruston –
Bishop of St Helena (1957–1961)
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Michael Scott-Joynt
Michael Charles Scott-Joynt (15 March 1943 – 27 September 2014) was an English bishop and a Prelate of the Order of the Garter. He was appointed Bishop of Winchester, one of the five senior bishoprics in the Church of England, in 1995. He ha ...
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Bishop of Winchester
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David Stancliffe – formerly
Bishop of Salisbury
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Thomas Stanage –
Bishop of Bloemfontein
The Diocese of the Free State is a diocese in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
History
The first service North of the Orange River to be taken by an Anglican clergyman was conducted in 1850 by † Robert Gray, the first Bishop of Cape Town ...
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Tim Stevens
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Bishop of Leicester
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Through reorganisation within the Church of England, the Diocese of Leicester was refounded in 1927, and St Martin's Church ...
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Nigel Stock –
Bishop of Stockport
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(2000–2007),
Bishop of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich (2007–2013),
Bishop at Lambeth
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(2013–present)
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Stephen Sykes –
Bishop of Ely
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(1990–2000)
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Robert Willis –
Dean of Canterbury
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David Hoyle
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Dean of Bristol
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List of deans
Early modern
*1542–1551 William Sno ...
currently
Dean of Westminster
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Andrew Swift -
Bishop of Brechin
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References
Sources and further reading
*Chapman, Mark D. (ed.), ''Ambassadors of Christ: Commemorating 150 Years of Theological Education in Cuddesdon 1854–2004'', Burlington (Ashgate) 2004.
*Chapman, Mark D., ''God's Holy Hill: A History of Christianity in Cuddesdon'', Charlbury (The Wychwood Press) 2004.
External links
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