Adam Atkinson (born 1967) is a

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priest. 2008. Atkinson was educated at the

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

. He was ordained priest in 2008. After a curacy in

Shadwell Shadwell is a district of East London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets , east of Charing Cross. It lies on the north bank of the Thames between Wapping (to the west) and Ratcliff (to the east). This riverside location has mea ...

he was

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Bethnal Green Bethnal Green is an area in the East End of London northeast of Charing Cross. The area emerged from the small settlement which developed around the Green, much of which survives today as Bethnal Green Gardens, beside Cambridge Heath Road. By ...

for 9 years. He was Mission Director for the Two Cities area from 2019 until his appointment as an

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.London Anglican
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1967 births Living people Alumni of the University of Birmingham 21st-century English Anglican priests Archdeacons of Charing Cross {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub