Roger Matthew Combes (born 12 June 1947) is a retired

Archdeacon of Horsham The Archdeacon of Horsham is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of Chichester. The diocese almost exactly covers the counties of East and West Sussex and the City of Brighton and Hove, stretching for nearly a hundred m ...

Birth and education

Combes was educated at

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, and Ridley Hall, Cambridge.

Church career

He was ordained in 1974 and was a

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at St Paul's Onslow Square, Holy Trinity Brompton, and Holy Sepulchre with All Saints, Cambridge. He became

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of Silverhill, East Sussex, in 1983 and was the

from 2003 until his retirement in 2014.http://www.chichester.anglican.org/news/2014/06/27/retirement-archdeacon-horsham/

Personal life

In 1983 he married Christine Mary Keiller.

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