Paul Shackerley

Last updated

The Very Reverend
Paul Shackerley
Deanofbreconshackerley.jpg
Shackerley as Dean of Brecon, September 2014
Title Dean of Brecon
Personal
Born16 August 1956
Tredegar (South Wales)
Religion Anglican
Nationality Welsh
Alma mater Chichester Theological College
King's College London
The University of Sheffield
Profession Priest
Senior posting
Predecessor Geoffrey Marshall
Ordination1993 (deacon); 1994 (priest)
Profession Priest
Previous postVicar of Doncaster Minster
Website paulshackerley.co.uk

Paul Shackerley (born 16 August 1956) is an Anglican priest of the Church in Wales and is the current dean of Brecon. [1]

Contents

Education

Shackerley studied for ordination at Chichester Theological College from 1991 to 1993, gaining a Diploma in Theology and Ministry. In 1996 he had gained a Master of Arts degree in Theology from King's College London. In 2007 he had completed his PhD awarded by the University of Sheffield on the role of theology and the Church of England in urban contexts, entitled "The Church in the City: Partnership and Hospitality". [2]

Church Army

Following service in the Royal Army Medical Corps, [3] Shackerley was commissioned as a Church Army officer [4] in 1983 and served as a parish evangelist for St Martin's Parish Church, Birmingham (1983–1986), then St Andrew's Parish Church, Kingsbury, London (1986–1991), before he began training for ordination to the priesthood in the Church of England.

Ordained ministry

Shackerley was made deacon at Petertide 1993 (27 June) by David Hope, Bishop of London, at St Paul's Cathedral; [5] and ordained priest the next Petertide (2 July 1994) by Graham Dow, Bishop of Willesden, at St Mary's Church, Ealing. [6] He served his title parish as the curate of All Souls' Harlesden, London, from 1993 to 1996 and then became vicar of All Saints with St Michael's Parish Church, Chelmsford, from 1996 to 2002. From 2002 he was a canon residentiary and the vice-dean of Sheffield Cathedral and chair of the Cathedral Archer Project. From 2010 to 2014 he was the vicar of Doncaster Minster before taking up the post of Dean of Brecon on 13 September 2014. [7] He is currently Chair of the Church in Wales Provincial Discernment Panel. [8]

Styles

Related Research Articles

Alwyn Rice Jones was Bishop of St Asaph from 1981 to 1999 and also Archbishop of Wales, the Welsh province of the Anglican Communion, from 1991 to 1999. During Rice Jones' tenure, the Church of Wales reformed its rules in order to ordain women priests, and to allow divorcees to remarry in church.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michael Sadgrove</span>

Michael Sadgrove is a Church of England priest and noted theological author. Between 2003 and 2015, he was Dean of Durham. From 1995 to 2003, he was Provost, then Dean of Sheffield Cathedral. He is now Dean Emeritus of Durham.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Keith Sinclair (bishop)</span> British Anglican retired bishop (born 1952)

Gordon Keith Sinclair is a British Anglican retired bishop. From 2007 until 2021, he served as the Bishop of Birkenhead, one of two suffragan bishops in the Church of England Diocese of Chester.

David Huw Jones was a Welsh Anglican bishop who served as the Bishop of St. David's from 1996 to 2001.

Geoffrey Peter Annas is a British retired Anglican bishop who served as the area Bishop of Stafford in the Church of England.

Richard Finn Blackburn is a British retired Anglican bishop. From 2009 until 2018, he served as the Bishop of Warrington — the sole suffragan bishop in the Church of England Diocese of Liverpool; he was also temporarily the acting Bishop of Sodor and Man, 2016–2017.

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.

Alan Paul Jeans is a British Anglican priest. He has been the Archdeacon of Sarum, in the Church of England Diocese of Salisbury, since 2003.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pete Wilcox</span> British Anglican bishop (born 1961)

Peter Jonathan Wilcox is a British Anglican bishop. Since June 2017, he has been the bishop of Sheffield in the Church of England. He was previously the dean of Liverpool from 2012 to 2017.

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

David Eric Court is a British Anglican bishop. He has been the Bishop suffragan of Grimsby in the Church of England Diocese of Lincoln since 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Thomson (bishop)</span>

John Bromilow Thomson is a Church of England bishop. Since 2014, he has been the Bishop of Selby, a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of York.

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.

Jonathan Byron Davies is a Welsh Anglican priest. He has served as the Vicar of Llwynderw in the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon, Church in Wales since September 2015, and as the Archdeacon of Gower since September 2016.

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

Christopher Mark Burke is a Church of England priest; he is the Archdeacon of Barking.

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.

Ian Christopher Black is a British Anglican priest who has served as Dean of Newport since 2021.

References

  1. ↑ The Church in Wales
  2. ↑ P. Shackerley, "The Church in the City: Partnership and Hospitality", (Sheffield: University of Sheffield Department of Biblical Studies, 2007) p. 2.
  3. ↑ World News.com
  4. ↑ BBC News Wales
  5. ↑ "Petertide ordinations" . Church Times . No. 6805. 16 July 1993. p. 5. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 6 August 2023– via UK Press Online archives.
  6. ↑ "Ordinations" . Church Times . No. 6857. 15 July 1994. p. 5. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 6 August 2023– via UK Press Online archives.
  7. ↑ The Diocese of Sheffield Archived 2014-07-26 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ "Paul Shackerley.co.uk".
Church in Wales titles
Preceded by Dean of Brecon Cathedral
2014-present		Incumbent
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.