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Bishop of Bolton: Church: Church of England: Province: Province of York: Diocese: Diocese of Manchester: In office: 2023-Predecessor: Mark Ashcroft: Other post(s) Vicar of St Michael le Belfrey, York (2010–2023) Orders; Ordination: 1996 (deacon) 1997(priest) by David Hope: Consecration: 22 June 2023 by Stephen Cottrell: Personal details; Born
The Bishop of Bolton is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Manchester, in the province of York, England. [1] The title takes its name after the town of Bolton in Greater Manchester ; the See was erected under the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888 , by Order in Council dated 8 February 1984.
Mark David Ashcroft (born 3 September 1954) is a British retired Anglican bishop. From 2016 until 2023, he was the Bishop of Bolton. [1] He had previously been Archdeacon of Manchester from 2009 to 2016. Apart from ten years working in Kenya, he has spent all his ordained ministry in the Diocese of Manchester, Church of England.
From 1979 until 1986 he was Vicar of Ovenden, and also in the latter part of his Incumbency the Bishop of Wakefield's adviser on Evangelism. After further pastoral posts he became Warden of Lee Abbey, Lynton, Devon, in 2002. [7] [8] This lead in turn to elevation to the suffragan bishopric of Bolton on the retirement of David Gillett.
The role was created by an Order of the Bishop on 20 May 1982. [ 1 ] As archdeacon, they are responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy [ 2 ] within the archdeaconry of Bolton, which consists six area deaneries : Bolton, Bury, Deane, Radcliffe and Prestwich, Rossendale and Walmsley.
Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel is a collection of sermons by English Bishop Joseph Butler first published in 1726. The earlier sermons try to reconcile ethical egoism and benevolence, laying out a view of moral psychology which is explored in the later sermons within particular cases (e.g., self-deception, forgiveness, resentment).
On 5 December 1991, Williams was elected Bishop of Monmouth in the Church in Wales: he was consecrated a bishop on 1 May 1992 at St Asaph Cathedral and enthroned at Newport Cathedral on 14 May. He continued to serve as Bishop of Monmouth after he was elected to also be the Archbishop of Wales in December 1999, in which capacity he was enthroned ...
Thomas Cromwell in 1532/1533 by Hans Holbein the Younger. Following the secession of the Church of England from the jurisdiction of the Church of Rome in 1530, and the designation of the monarch, Henry VIII of England, as the chief power in both the civil and ecclesiastical estates of the realm, it was needed for the establishment of the English Reformation that the reformed Christian ...