EPISCOPAL appointments noted in the Church Times this year included those of Canon Anderson Jeremiah as Area Bishop of Edmonton; Canon David Morris as Assistant Bishop of Bangor; the Revd Sean Semple as Bishop in Cyprus & the Gulf; the Revd Dr Joseph Kennedy as Suffragan Bishop of Burnley; the Revd David Railton as Bishop of Argyll & The Isles; the Ven. Patricia Hillas as Bishop of Sodor & Man; the Ven. Alastair Cutting as Area Bishop of Woolwich; Dr Tim Wambunya as Area Bishop of Wolverhampton, translated from Butere, in Kenya; the Ven. Rhiannon King as Suffragan Bishop of Southampton; the Rt Revd Sophie Jelley as Bishop of Coventry, translated from Doncaster; Canon Dave Bull as Area Bishop of Buckingham; Canon Mary Gregory as Area Bishop of Reading; Canon Andrew Norman as Suffragan Bishop in Europe; the Ven. Luke Irvine-Capel as Bishop of Richborough; the Rt Revd David Williams as Bishop of Truro, translated from Basingstoke; Canon Esther Prior as Suffragan Bishop of Aston
The Bishop of Tewkesbury (the Rt Revd Robert Springett) as deputy lead bishop for safeguarding; the Bishop of London (the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally) as chair of Christian Aid; the Rt Revd Anne Hollinghurst as Principal of the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, Birmingham; the Bishop of Birkenhead (the Rt Revd Julie Conalty) as lead bishop for self-supporting ministers; the Rt Revd Anthony Ball as Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome; the Bishop of Norwich (Rt Revd Graham Usher) as Lord High Almoner; the Rt Revd Jan McFarlane as Dean of Lichfield. The Revd David Waller became Bishop Ordinary of the RC Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.
AMONG clergy appointments were those of archdeacons: the Revd Katherine Hedderly (Charing Cross); the Revd Clive Hogger (Cornwall); the Revd Ruth Newton (Carlisle); Canon Matthew Hill (Carmarthen); the Ven. Mones Farah (Archdeacon Missioner in St Davids diocese); the Revd Phelim O’Hare (Aston); the Revd Charles Peer (Bath); the Revd Gerwyn Capon (Montgomery); the Revd Dr Chigor Chike (Lewisham and Greenwich); the Ven. Michael Power (West Ham); the Ven. Karen Smeeton (Rochdale); Prebendary Sandra McCalla (Rochester); the Revd Nicholas Cornell (Tonbridge).
Those appointed as dean included Canon Toby Wright (Wells); Canon Simon Jones (Lincoln); the Ven. Edward Dowler (Chichester); Canon Stephen Edwards (Worcester); Canon Jessica Martin (Chelmsford); the Ven. Robert Cooper (Guildford).
Among other clergy appointments were those of the Ven. Dr Peter Rouch as secretary-general of the Mission to Seafarers; the Revd Benjamin Eadon as Priest Administrator of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham; the Revd Dr Andrew Davison and the Revd Dr Luke Bretherton as Oxford Regius Professors of Divinity, and of Moral and Pastoral Theology, respectively; the Revd Mark Birch as Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons; the Revd Dr Callan Slipper as chair of Churches Together in England. Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP was created a cardinal.
LAY appointments included those of Lesley-Anne Ryder as independent co-chair of the Response Group for the Wilkinson and Jay reviews; Laura Moss-Bromage as the Church Commissioners’ “Planet Lead”, and Poppy Allonby as their chief investment officer; Robert Dawes as executive director of the Anglican Alliance; Novelette Aldoni-Stewart as chair of the Church Buildings Council; Marsha de Cordova MP as Second Church Estates Commissioner; Matt Barlow as chief executive of the Church Army; Gordon Brown as founding patron of the Warm Welcome Campaign; and Sarah Meyrick as editor of the Church Times.