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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
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.
Christopher Paul Edmondson (born 25 June 1950) is a British Anglican retired bishop. He was the Bishop of Bolton , a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Manchester , from 2008 to 2016. [ 3 ] He is presently an Honorary Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Leeds.
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 ...
David Bonser (1 February 1934 – 20 March 2005) was the Anglican Bishop of Bolton from 1991 until 1999. Educated at King's College London [1] Bonser studied for ordination at St Boniface Missionary College, Warminster. He became an Associate of King's College (AKC) in 1961 and later obtained an MA from the University of Manchester (1975). [2]
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.