Michael Chapman (priest)

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Michael Chapman (29 September 1939 - 15 March 2019) was an English Anglican priest who was the Archdeacon of Northampton from 1991 to his retirement in 2004. [1]

Marsh was educated at Lichfield Cathedral School, Ellesmere College, the University of Leeds and the College of the Resurrection; [2] and ordained deacon in 1963 and priest in 1964. [3] After a curacy in Sunderland he was a Chaplain in the Royal Navy from 1968 until 1984. In that year he became Vicar of St Mark the Evangelist Church, Upper Hale, Farnham, Surrey, and in 1988 its Rural Dean, holding both posts until his appointment as Archdeacon.

He died in 2019, aged 79. [4] He was survived by his wife, Bernadette. [5]

Notes

  1. Northampton Chronicle
  2. ‘CHAPMAN, Ven. Michael Robin’, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, Oct 2014 accessed 26 Jan 2015
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London p171 Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN   0-19-200008-X
  4. "Church Times: "Deaths", 22 March 2019" . Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  5. "Diocese of Lincoln News: The Ven Michael Robin Chapman - RIP" . Retrieved 22 August 2021.
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Bazil Marsh
Archdeacon of Northampton
19912004
Succeeded by
Christine Allsopp


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