Michael Hooper (bishop)

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Michael Hooper
Bishop of Ludlow
Diocese Diocese of Hereford
In office2002–2009
Predecessor John Saxbee
Successor Alistair Magowan
Other post(s) Assistant bishop in Worcester (2010–present) [1]
ex officio also Archdeacon of Ludlow (2002–2009)
Archdeacon of Hereford (1997–2002)
Orders
Ordination1965 (deacon); 1966 (priest)
Consecration2002
Personal details
Born (1941-05-02) 2 May 1941 (age 84)
Denomination Anglican
SpouseRosemary Edwards (m. 1968)
Children2 sons; 2 daughters
Alma mater St David's College, Lampeter

Michael Wrenford Hooper (born 2 May 1941) is a retired Anglican bishop in the Church of England who also served as the suffragan Bishop of Ludlow from 2002 to 2009. [2]

Hooper was educated at the Crypt School in Gloucester and the University of Wales, Lampeter. He was ordained in 1966, serving in Shropshire as a curate at St Mary Magdalene's Bridgnorth 1965-1970, then, successively, as vicar of Minsterley 1970-1981 and, during same period, priest in charge at Habberley 1970-1978 and Rural Dean of Pontesbury 1975-1980. [3]

In 1981 he moved into Herefordshire where he served successively in Leominster as parish vicar to 1985, and then team vicar, when a team ministry was formed to serve the vicinity, from 1985 to 1997 and, simultaneously Rural Dean of Leominster from 1981 to 1997, and priest-in-charge of Eyton (1981-1985) and of Eye, Croft with Yarpole and Lucton (1991-1997); [3] and finally, before his ordination to the episcopate, the Archdeacon of Hereford from 1997 to 2002. [4]

He married in 1968 Rosemary Anne Edwards and the couple have two sons and two daughters. [5]

References

  1. Worcester Diocesan News – April 2010 [ permanent dead link ]
  2. Anglican Communion
  3. 1 2 Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009, Church House Publishing, ISBN   978-0-7151-1030-0
  4. Debrett's People of Today, London, Debrett's, 2008, ISBN   978-1-870520-95-9
  5. "Hooper, Rt Rev. Michael Wrenford", Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011 , accessed 5 July 2012.
Church of England titles
Preceded by Bishop of Ludlow
2002–2009
Succeeded by