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The Bishop of Rhode Island in the USA, Geralyn
Wolf, is a native of Pennsylvania and was ordained
a bishop in 1997, prior to which she was the first
woman cathedral dean in America. An associate
of the Society of St. Margaret, a Companion of
the Oratory of the Good Shepherd, an ecumenical
oblate of Mount Saviour Monastery in New York, she
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The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, was
born in Uganda. He practised Law and was a judge
before coming to the UK in 1974. After training at
Ridley Hall, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1979
and served in a number of posts in London before
becoming Bishop of Stepney in 1996 and Bishop
for Birmingham in 2002. He was inaugurated as the
97th Archbishop of York in November 2005. |
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Father Kenneth Leech, in 1968 whilst Curate at St
Anne’s Church in Soho, founded Centrepoint with
Anton Wallich-Clifford. He has served as a director
of the Runnymede Trust and was involved in the
foundation of the Christian Socialist Movement and
the Jubilee Group. A leading expert on drug culture
and the social problems it creates, he retired in 2004
after 40 years as a parish priest and community
theologian. He is a spiritual director and writer. |
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Canon Susan Hope trained for ministry at Durham
in 1980. Ordained first as a deaconess, she served
her ‘curacy’ in York Diocese before moving in 1986
to urban north Sheffield. After a time in parish
ministry she now works as the Sheffield Diocesan
Missioner. Author of Mission-Shaped Spirituality, she
is a Six Preacher of Canterbury and a member of the
College of Evangelists. Nurtured in the charismatic
evangelical tradition of her early Christian life,
she has also found great resources in the catholic
approach to spirituality and is a tertiary of the Order
of the Holy Paraclete, Whitby.
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The Assembly 2008 booking process begins from June 2007 through PCC Secretaries and Rural Deans or Deanery Lay Chairs. If you're interested tell any of these or let your Parish Priest know.
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