Peter Fox (bishop)

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Peter Fox

Honorary Assistant Bishop
Diocese Diocese of Leicester
InstalledAugust 2019
Other post(s) Bishop of Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea; 2002–2006)
Priest-in-Charge and Vicar of the Lakenham Group (2006–2018)
Honorary assistant bishop, Diocese of Norwich (2006–2018)
Orders
Ordination1975 (deacon); 1976 (priest)
Consecration24 February 2002
Personal details
Born1952 (age 69–70)
Nationality British
Denomination Anglican
SpouseAngie [1]
Children3 [1]
Alma mater King's College London

Peter John Fox (born 1952) is a British priest in the Church of England who served as Bishop of Port Moresby in the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea from 2002 to 2006, as an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Norwich between 2006 and 2018, and since August 2019 an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Leicester. [2]

Fox attended King's College London, becoming an Associate (AKC) in 1974 and spending his fourth and final year of ministerial training at St Augustine's College, Canterbury. [3] He was then ordained a deacon at Petertide (29 June) 1975 by Maurice Wood, Bishop of Norwich, at Norwich Cathedral [4] and a priest the following Petertide (27 June 1976) by Aubrey Aitken, Bishop of Lynn, at the same cathedral. [5] He served his title (curacy) at Wymondham, Norfolk until 1979, when he went as a missionary priest to Papua New Guinea, where he served as Rector of Gerehu from 1980 and additionally as Diocesan Secretary for the Diocese of Port Moresby from 1984. [3]

He returned to the UK in 1985, taking a group of rural Norfolk parishes: East and West Rudham, Syderstone, Bagthorpe, Barmer, Tatterford, Tattersett and Houghton [N 1] (which became the Coxford Group in 1988); until 1989. He then moved to Devon and became Team Rector of Lynton, Barbrook, Countisbury, Lynmouth, Brendon, Martinhoe and Parracombe until 1995, serving additionally as Rural Dean of Shirwell from 1992. From Devon he moved to Oxfordshire, where he was Priest-in-Charge at Harpsden-cum-Bolney, serving concurrently as General Secretary of the Melanesian Mission. [3] He was elected to become Bishop of Port Moresby, in the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea, in September 2001. [7]

Fox was consecrated and installed on 24 February 2002; [7] [8] he served until 2006. That year, he returned to Britain, becoming Priest-in-Charge of the Lakenham Group of churches (North Lakenham and Tuckswood; becoming Vicar in 2007) and (additionally) an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Norwich. [3] In 2019 Bishop Martyn Snow appointed him an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Leicester. [2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Fox's immediate predecessor as priest-in-charge of the Coxford parishes was David Hand, former Archbishop of Papua New Guinea, who had grown up in Tatterford and served these parishes after resigning his archiepiscopate, 1983–1985. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Former missionary to return to Port Moresby as Bishop". Anglican Communion News Service. ACNS 2690: Anglican Communion Office. 18 September 2001. Archived from the original on 14 July 2006. Retrieved 13 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  2. 1 2 "New honorary bishop for Diocese". Anglican Diocese of Leicester. 1 August 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Peter John Fox" . Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing . Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "Petertide Ordinations" . Church Times . No. 5864. 4 July 1975. p. 15. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 8 October 2016– via UK Press Online archives.
  5. ↑ "Petertide Ordinations" . Church Times . No. 5916. 2 July 1976. p. 8. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 8 October 2016– via UK Press Online archives.
  6. ↑ Diocese of Norwich — Papua New Guinea (Accessed 8 October 2016)
  7. 1 2 Diocese of Port Moresby — Bishop's News (Feb 2002) (Accessed 8 October 2016)
  8. ↑ List of small publications in the Archives of the Anglican Church of Melanesia (in the National Archives of Solomon Islands) p. 41. (Accessed 25 August 2016)
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