The Revd. Stuart Hallam is an
Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...
Royal Navy chaplain, notable for being one of the handful of
commando-trained
chaplain
A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a Minister (Christianity), minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a laity, lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secularity, secular institution (such as a hosp ...
s.
Hallam was born and brought up in
Mansfield
Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area (followed by Sutton-in-Ashfield). It gained the Royal Charter of a market tow ...
,
Nottinghamshire and graduated from
St Martin's College, Lancaster in 1992 after reading for a Social Policy degree. After some time working as a youth worker in
London, he was called to the priesthood and went up to Cambridge to read theology through
Wolfson College. He trained for the ministry at
Westcott House, Cambridge, and was ordained in 1999, despite the fact that his college principal recommended his ordination with "every confidence and a temor of trepidation".
He was curate of
St. Mary's Church, Battersea
St Mary's Church, Battersea, is the oldest of the churches in Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth, in the inner south-west of the UK's capital city. Its parish shared by three Anglican churches is in the diocese of Southwark. Christi ...
between 1999 and 2001, after which he joined the
Royal Navy as a chaplain.
After a brief period at
Britannia Royal Naval College,
Dartmouth Dartmouth may refer to:
Places
* Dartmouth, Devon, England
** Dartmouth Harbour
* Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States
* Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
* Dartmouth, Victoria, Australia
Institutions
* Dartmouth College, Ivy League university i ...
, where he was awarded the prize for being the "Cadet who made the most outstanding contribution to Initial Sea Training" whilst on board HMS ''Campbletown'' in the Gulf,
he undertook commando training at
Commando Training Centre Royal Marines,
Lympstone, where his progress through the commando course and his struggles to overcome injury were featured on the television programme ''Chaplain RN''.
He was awarded the ‘Green Beret’ in July 2003.
On 23 July 2017 the Executive Archdeacon of the Canadian Anglican Diocese of New Westminster announced that St. Philip’s Dunbar had made a recommendation to
Archbishop Melissa Skelton to appoint Hallam as the 10th Rector of the
Vancouver, BC Canada parish.
Reverend Hallam relocated to Canada and was inducted on 22 May 2018. On 10 January 2021 Hallam announced that he was resigning as rector after just over 33 months in the position and planned to return home with his family to the United Kingdom. Hallam’s last Sunday worship service at ''St Philip's Dunbar'' was on 28 February 2021
References
Living people
Royal Navy chaplains
21st-century Christian clergy
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) chaplains
Alumni of Westcott House, Cambridge
Year of birth missing (living people)
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