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David Keith Gillett (born 25 January 1945) is a British Anglican bishop. From 1988 to 1999, he was Principal of Trinity College, Bristol, an Anglican theological college.From 1999 to 2008, he was the Bishop of Bolton, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Manchester.
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
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.
Bishop of Newcastle Helen-Ann Hartley posted on X after the service, saying: “The Archbishop of York says this today: ‘Right now, this Christmas, God’s Church itself needs to come again to ...
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.
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.
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...
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.