John Oliver (Archdeacon of Leeds)

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John Michael Oliver (7 September 1939 - 23 January 2021) was an Anglican priest who was Archdeacon of Leeds from 1992 to 2005. [1]

Oliver was educated at Ripon Grammar School and St David's College, Lampeter. He trained for ordination at Ripon Hall, Oxford and was ordained deacon in 1964 and priest in 1965. [2] After curacies at St Peter's Church, Harrogate (1964–67) and Bramley (1967-72) he was Vicar of St Mary's Church, Harrogate (1972–78); then St Mary with St David, Beeston (1978–92). He was also Ecumenical Officer for Leeds Metropolitan Council of Churches from 1980 to 1986; Rural Dean of Armley from 1986 to 1992; and an Honorary Canon of Ripon Cathedral from 1987 to 1992. [3] [4] He was then collated as Archdeacon of Leeds in 1992.

He died in 2021, aged 81. [5]

Notes

  1. ↑ ‘OLIVER, Ven. John Michael’, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, November 2014 accessed 3 November 2015
  2. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 2006-07, 99th Edition, p 600.
  3. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 2000-2001 p 541 London, Church House Publishing, 2000 ISBN   0715181068
  4. ↑ "Church Times: Deaths, 19 February 2021".
  5. ↑ "Church Times: Deaths, 19 February 2021".


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