Paul Ferguson (bishop)

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The Right Reverend Paul Ferguson in 2021
Born
Paul John Ferguson

(1955-07-13) July 13, 1955 (age 67)
Occupation Church of England bishop

Paul John Ferguson, FRCO (born 13 July 1955) [1] is a Church of England bishop. Since 2014, he has been the Bishop of Whitby. [2]

Ferguson was educated at Birkenhead School; New College, Oxford; and Westcott House, Cambridge. He was made a deacon at Petertide 1985 (30 June), by Ronald Brown, Bishop of Birkenhead, at St Mary-without-the-Walls, Chester, [3] and ordained a priest the Petertide following (29 June 1986), by Michael Baughen, Bishop of Chester, at Chester Cathedral. [4] After a curacy at St Mary, Chester he was Curate, Chaplain, Sacrist and Precentor at Westminster Abbey from 1988 to 1995. After this he was Precentor and a Residentiary Canon at York Minster until his appointment as Archdeacon of Cleveland in 2001. [5]

He was consecrated at York Minster on 3 July 2014 by John Sentamu, Archbishop of York. [6] In the vacancy in See between the retirement of Sentamu and the confirmation of Stephen Cottrell, Ferguson was acting diocesan bishop. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Paul John Ferguson" . Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing . Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  2. ↑ WHITBY, Bishop Suffragan of’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016 ; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 12 March 2017
  3. ↑ "Petertide ordinations" . Church Times . No. 6386. 5 July 1985. p. 16. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 7 May 2019– via UK Press Online archives.
  4. ↑ "Petertide ordinations" . Church Times . No. 6438. 4 July 1986. p. 15. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 7 May 2019– via UK Press Online archives.
  5. ↑ "Suffragan Bishop of Whitby: Paul John Ferguson". News. GOV.UK. 2 May 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  6. ↑ "Consecrations of two new North Yorkshire bishops". BBC News. 3 July 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  7. ↑ "A pastoral letter to the Diocese of York from the Bishop of Whitby".
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