Robert Wilkes (priest)

Last updated

Robert Anthony 'Bob' Wilkes (born 2 September 1948) is an Anglican priest. From 2006 to 2009, he was Dean of Birmingham. [1] He was latterly Vicar of St Michael at the North Gate in Oxford.

Contents

Early life

He was educated at Pocklington School and Trinity College, Oxford.

Ordained ministry

He was ordained in 1974 [2] and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Oswald, Netherton, Merseyside, after which he was its Vicar until 1981 when he became Chaplain to the Bishop of Liverpool. [3] From 1985 to 1998 he was Regional Secretary for the CMS in Pakistan and the Middle East. In 1999 he became Team Rector for the Mossley Hill area of Liverpool. He was appointed to Dean of Birmingham Cathedral in 2006, serving for three years. He was latterly vicar of St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford. [4]

Related Research Articles

Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth diocese of the Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth is a Latin Church Roman Catholic diocese that covers the Channel Islands as well as parts of England. The episcopal see is the Portsmouth Cathedral and is headed by the Bishop of Portsmouth. The diocese is part of the metropolitan Province of Southwark, which covers all of the far South of England as well as the Channel Islands.

Michael Clement Otway Mayne, was an English priest of the Church of England who served as the Dean of Westminster.

Rupert William Noel Hoare is a former Dean of Liverpool and Anglican area Bishop of Dudley.

Gordon Mursell Bishop of Stafford

Alfred Gordon Mursell is a retired British Anglican bishop and author. From 2005 to 2010, he was the Bishop of Stafford in the Church of England.

Michael Sadgrove Dean of Durham; Dean of Sheffield

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.

George Christopher Pepys Cutts was, from 1964 to 1974, the fifth Bishop of Buckingham in the Church of England.

Michael Frederick Gear was Suffragan Bishop of Doncaster.

Clement George St Michael Parker was a British Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Aston and later of Bradford.

The Very Rev. Charles Mansfield Owen was an eminent Anglican priest in the last decades of the 19th century and the first four of the 20th.

William Gordon Reid is an Anglican priest and former Dean of Gibraltar and Vicar General of the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe.

Mark Christopher Boyling is the current Dean of Carlisle.

Adrian Newman is a bishop of the Church of England; he was area Bishop of Stepney in the Diocese of London (2011–2018) and Dean of Rochester (2004–2011).

Alan Geoffrey Woods is a retired Anglican priest.

John Stuart Cox was Archdeacon of Sudbury from 1995 to 2006.

John Charles Williams was an Anglican priest.

John Harverd Davies DL is a British Anglican priest and academic. Since 2016, he has been the Dean of Wells, the priest first-among-equals at Wells Cathedral and the most senior priest in the Diocese of Bath and Wells. He previously served as Dean of Derby since 2010.

Charles Eric Corbett was a clergyman in the Church of England, who was Archdeacon of Liverpool from 1970 to 1979.

Hayward John Osborne is a retired British Anglican priest. He was the Archdeacon of Birmingham from 2001 until his 2018 retirement. He was previously a parish priest in the Diocese of Rochester, the Diocese of Worcester, and the Diocese of Birmingham.

Michael Edson is a British Church of England priest; he was Archdeacon of Leicester from 1994 to 2002.

Guy Charles Elsmore is a British Anglican priest. Since July 2016, he has served as the Archdeacon of Buckingham in the Diocese of Oxford.

References

  1. Oxford Mail
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 Lambeth, Church House ISBN   0-19-200008-X
  3. Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN   978-0-7136-8555-8
  4. "Our People". St Michael at the North Gate. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Gordon Mursell
Dean of Birmingham Cathedral
20062009
Succeeded by
Catherine Ogle