Peter Bishop (priest)

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Peter Bishop
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Anthony Peter Bishop
NationalityBritish
OccupationPriest and military chaplain

Anthony Peter Bishop, CB, [1] QHC, FRSA (born 24 May 1946) is a British Anglican priest and retired military chaplain. From 1998 to 2001, he served as Chaplain-in-Chief, and thereby head of the Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch, and Archdeacon for the Royal Air Force. [2]

Bishop was a civil servant in the Ministry of Transport from 1963 to 1967. After studying at the London College of Divinity and St John's College, Nottingham he was ordained deacon in 1971, and priest in 1972. [3] After a curacy in Beckenham he served with the RAF from 1975 to 2001. He was appointed an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen in 1998.

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References

  1. BBC
  2. ‘BISHOP, Ven. (Anthony) Peter’, 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 20 May 2017
  3. "Anthony Peter Bishop" . Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing . Retrieved 20 May 2017.
Military offices
Preceded by Chaplain-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force
1998 – 2001
Succeeded by