Alan Jeans

Last updated

The Venerable

Alan Jeans

MBE
Archdeacon of Sarum
Church Church of England
Diocese Diocese of Salisbury
In office2003–present
Predecessor Barney Hopkinson
Other post(s) Diocesan Director of Ordinands (2007–2013)
Proctor in Convocation (2000–2005&2010–present)
Orders
Ordination1989 (deacon); 1990 (priest)
by  John Baker
Personal details
Born (1958-05-18) 18 May 1958 (age 65)
Nationality British
Denomination Anglican
ParentsBrian & Jacqueline Jeans
Spouse
Anita Hobbs
​
(m. 1981)​
Profession building surveyor (former)
Alma mater Bournemouth and Poole College

Alan Paul Jeans (born 18 May 1958) is a British Anglican priest. He has been the Archdeacon of Sarum, in the Church of England Diocese of Salisbury, since 2003. [1]

Contents

Family and education

The son of Brian Edward and Jacqueline Rosemary Jeans, Jeans was educated at Bournemouth School and Bournemouth and Poole College. He was a building surveyor for ten years (1976–1986) [2] — in 1984 he became a Member of both the Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors and of the Institution of Building Control Officers. [3] He married Anita Hobbs in 1981 and they have two children. [2]

Ministry

He started training for the ministry in 1986, at Sarum & Wells Theological College, graduating from the University of Southampton with a Bachelor of Theology (BTh) degree in 1989. [3] He was duly made a deacon at Petertide 1989 (1 July) at Salisbury Cathedral [4] and ordained a priest at St Peter's Church, Parkstone (his title church) the Petertide following (30 June 1990) — both times by John Baker, Bishop of Salisbury. [5] Following a curacy at Parkstone with Branksea (1989–1993), he was Priest in charge at Bishops Cannings, All Cannings and Etchilhampton (1993–1998). [3]

From 1998 until 2005, he was the Diocese of Salisbury's Advisor for Parish Development; he remained in that post when he was installed an Honorary Canon of Salisbury Cathedral in 2002 and when he was collated Archdeacon of Sarum in 2003. He graduated Master of Arts (MA) from the University of Wales, Lampeter in 2002 [2] /2003. Alongside his archdiaconal post, he has also served as Rural Dean of Alderbury (2005–2007) and as Diocesan Director of Ordinands (2007–2013). [3] Besides his parish and diocesan posts, he has also been an assistant chaplain to Dauntsey's School (1995–2007), a Chaplain to the Forces (Army Cadet Force, since 2002) and a Proctor in Convocation (2000–2005 and since 2010). [2]

Alan was appointed Member of the British Empire (MBE) of the Military division of the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2021, for service to the Army Cadet Force.

Related Research Articles

David Staffurth Stancliffe is a retired Church of England bishop. He was Provost of Portsmouth Cathedral from 1982 to 1993, and the Bishop of Salisbury from 1993 to 2010. He is the third generation of his family to serve the ordained ministry.

Trevor Willmott is a British retired bishop in the Church of England. He served as Bishop of Basingstoke from 2002 to 2009 and then Bishop of Dover from 2010 until his retirement in 2019. In retirement, he remains bishop for the Channel Islands.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alan Smith (bishop)</span> British Anglican bishop

Alan Gregory Clayton Smith is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2009, he has been the Bishop of St Albans. From 2001 to 2009, he served as the area Bishop of Shrewsbury.

Stephen David Conway SCP is a British Anglican bishop. Since December 2010, he has been the Bishop of Ely. He was additionally Acting Bishop of Lincoln from January 2022 to April 2023. In July, 2023 he became Bishop of Lincoln. From 2006 to 2010, he was the Bishop of Ramsbury, an area bishop and then suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Salisbury.

Alistair James Magowan is a British retired Anglican bishop. He served as the Bishop of Ludlow — the sole suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Hereford — from 2009 until his 2020 retirement.

John Edward Holbrook is a Church of England bishop. He is the Bishop of Brixworth in the Diocese of Peterborough. He also is currently serving as acting diocesan Bishop of Peterborough. He had been Rural Dean of Wimborne in the Diocese of Salisbury and served as Acting Bishop of Leicester.

Paul Vernon Hughes is a British retired Anglican priest and the most recent Archdeacon of Bedford, in the Church of England Diocese of St Albans, 2003–2018.

Michael Geoffrey Ipgrave is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2016, he has been the 99th Bishop of Lichfield, the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Lichfield. He was the Bishop of Woolwich, an area bishop in the Diocese of Southwark, from 2012 to 2016. He served as Archdeacon of Southwark between 2004 and 2012.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ed Condry</span>

Edward Francis Condry is a retired bishop of the Church of England. He was the suffragan Bishop of Ramsbury in the Diocese of Salisbury, 2012–2018, and Canon Treasurer of Canterbury Cathedral, 2002–2012.

Cherry Elizabeth Vann is a British Anglican bishop serving as Bishop of Monmouth in the Church in Wales. She previously served as Archdeacon of Rochdale from 2008 to 2020, having served all of her ordained ministry with the Church of England in the Diocese of Manchester.

Paul Wright is a British retired Anglican priest who served as the Archdeacon of Bromley & Bexley, 2003–2022.

Colin Henry Williams is a British Anglican priest. Since 2015, he has served as an Archdeacon in the Diocese in Europe; he was Archdeacon of Lancaster from 1999 to 2005.

Sarah Ruth Bullock is a British Church of England bishop. Since 2019, she has served as Bishop of Shrewsbury, an area bishop in the Diocese of Lichfield. She was previously Archdeacon of York since 2013.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul Ferguson (bishop)</span>

Paul John Ferguson FRCO is a Church of England bishop. Since 2014, he has been the Bishop of Whitby.

Ian Jagger is a retired British Anglican priest. From 2006 until retirement, he served as the archdeacon of Durham, a senior priest in the Diocese of Durham, Church of England. After parish ministry in the Diocese of London, the Diocese of Oxford, and the Diocese of Portsmouth, he was Archdeacon of Auckland from 2001 to 2006.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peter Eagles</span> British Anglican bishop

Peter Andrew Eagles, is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2017, he has been the Bishop of Sodor and Man; he was consecrated a bishop in the Church of England in June 2017, and he was installed in September 2017. He is a former chaplain of the British Army, serving as Archdeacon for the Army (2011–2017) and the Deputy Chaplain-General of the Royal Army Chaplains' Department (2014–2017).

Alan Neil Jevons is a Church in Wales priest: he has been Archdeacon of Brecon since 2013.

Luke Thomas Irvine-Capel SSC is a British Anglican priest currently serving as Archdeacon of Chichester, a senior ecclesiastical role in the Church of England and the Diocese of Chichester.

Alan Robert Gillion is a British Anglican bishop and former actor. From 2014 to 2018 he was the Bishop of Riverina in the Anglican Church of Australia; since 2020, he has been a parish priest in Streatham, South London.

References

  1. ↑ "Salisbury Diocesan web site". Archived from the original on 21 January 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Jeans, Alan Paul" . Who's Who . Vol. 2019 (December 2018 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 7 January 2019.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Alan Paul Jeans" . Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing . Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  4. ↑ "Ordinations" . Church Times . No. 6597. 21 July 1989. p. 15. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 7 January 2019– via UK Press Online archives.
  5. ↑ "Ordinations at Petertide" . Church Times . No. 6647. 6 July 1990. p. 5. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 7 January 2019– via UK Press Online archives.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.