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Bishop of Durham to step down

27/04/2010 10:30:00


The Diocese of Durham has announced that Tom Wright is to retire as Bishop of Durham and will be moving to the University of St Andrews to take up an academic post. From Bishop of Durham to leave Diocese:

The Bishop of Durham, Dr N. T. Wright, has announced that he will be retiring from the See of Durham on August 31.

Dr Wright, who will be 62 this autumn, is returning to the academic world, in which he spent the first twenty years of his career, and will take up a new appointment as Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.


Read the announcement in full here.

The University of St Andrews has the announcement here: St Andrews appoints N.T. Wright to chair in Divinity, and on the School of Divinity pages,  N. T. Wright appointed to Chair at St Andrews.

Tom Wright has been Bishop of Durham since 2003 - the Church Times story about his election, (14 February 2003) is here: NT scholar-bishop for Durham


I wish Dr Wright all the best for his retirement and the academic world
to which he enters again.
I hope and pray that the new Bishop has the ability to grasp the internet and all the implications, rather than just condemn as 'cultural masterbation' and 'cyber gnostic'

We are in movement which is algorhythmic and the church will have to keep up.

God Bless you sir.
Lorraine

Lorraine Wall-Jones | 27/04/2010 10:56:11




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