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Resignations and retirements

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11 December 2015

BECKLEY. The Revd Peter Beckley, Priest-in-Charge of Endcliffe: 31 December, remaining Vicar of Greystones (Sheffield).

BLUNT. The Revd Jeremy Blunt, OLM of Streetly (Lichfield).

BONIWELL. The Revd Timothy Boniwell, Chaplain of Barnet and Chase Farm Hospital of Royal Free London NHS Trust (London): 31 December.

BURGESS. The Revd Denise Burgess, NSM (Assistant Minister) of Mease Valley (Lichfield): 31 December.

CROOK. The Revd Graham Crook, Chaplain of Southend Health Care NHS Trust (Chelmsford).

DAVIES. The Revd Gareth Davies, Vicar of Sneyd Green (Lichfield): 29 February 2016.

EVANS. The Revd Roy Evans, Clergy Widows Visitor (Lichfield).

HARPER. The Revd Roger Harper, Vicar of Burton Joyce with Bulcote and Stoke Bardolph (Southwell & Nottingham): 21 December, remaining Hon. Canon of St Peter’s Cathedral, Bushenyi (West Ankole, Uganda).

HART. The Revd Dagogo Hart, Vicar of St James and St Paul, West Bromwich (Lichfield).

LINDSAY-SMITH. The Revd Kevin Lindsay-Smith, OLM of Glascote and Stonydelph (Lichfield).

NEWSOME. The Revd David Newsome, Diocesan Director of Ordinands: 31 December, remaining Prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral (Lichfield).

NEWSOME. The Revd Jane Newsome, Chaplain of HM Prison Swinfen Hall (Lichfield).

OWEN. The Revd Myles Owen, Assistant Curate of St Luke and St Mary, Bowdon (Chester): 31 December.

SCOONES. The Revd Roger Scoones, Rector of St Mary’s, Stockport (Chester): 30 April.

STRØMMEN. The Revd Mary Strømmen, Assistant Chaplain of St Edmund’s, Oslo, with Bergen, Trondheim and Stavanger (Europe): 1 January

TAINTON. The Revd Carol Tainton, Vicar of Lowdham with Caythorpe, and Gunthorpe (Southwell & Nottingham): 24 July 2016.

THOMPSON. The Revd Garry Thompson, Rector of Mease Valley (Lichfield).

WARNER. The Revd Terence Warner, NS Associate Minister of Brown Edge (Lichfield): 27 December.

WHITE. The Revd Andrew White, Rector of Kirkley (Norwich): 31 January.

WOODHEAD. The Revd Sandra Buchanan, Retired Clergy Widows Officer: 31 December, remaining Hon. Assistant Curate of St George’s, Stockport (Chester).

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