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Mark Simon Austin Tanner (born November 1970) is a British Anglican bishop and academic. Since 2020, he has been the Bishop of Chester; he previously served as Bishop of Berwick, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Newcastle since his 2016 consecration as bishop; and from August 2011 until his consecration, he was the Warden of Cranmer Hall, Durham, a Church of England theological college.
From 1997 to 2005, Forster was the chair of the board of governors of University College, Chester, which was recognised by the University of Liverpool for the awarding of degrees. In 2005 he oversaw the emergence of the University of Chester, with full power to award its own degrees. From 2005 to 2019 he was president of the council of the ...
The Bishop of Chester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chester in the Province of York.. The diocese extends across most of the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, including the Wirral Peninsula and has its see in the City of Chester where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, which was formerly the Benedictine Abbey of Saint ...
The original College building (still in use and now known as Old College) in 1843, a year after it opened. The university was founded as Chester Diocesan Training College in 1839 by a distinguished group of local leading figures in the Church of England, including future Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone and the 14th Earl of Derby. [9]
The college school opened in 1884, with the aim of providing a sound education for future entrants to the college. [1] Jayne is remembered as the 'second founder' of the college. [1] A devoutly religious man, Jayne left Lampeter to become an Anglican vicar in Leeds. He became Bishop of Chester in 1889
He then matriculated at Jesus College, University of Oxford, on 12 May 1687, where he graduated and obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree on 12 March 1690 and his Master of Arts degree on 19 October 1693. After being ordained, Peploe became rector of Kedleston, Derbyshire, in 1695 and vicar of Preston, Lancashire, in 1700.
He served as Bishop of Chester from 1689 to 1707. He was born at Hemel Hempstead, [2] graduated M.A. at Trinity College, Oxford in 1656, and was Fellow there in 1657. [3] He contributed to the royalist poetry anthology Britannia Rediviva in 1660, writing in Latin. [4] He became Dean of St Asaph in 1673. [5]
St Bees Theological College, close to the coast of Cumberland, was the first independent theological college to be established for the training of Church of England ordinands. It was founded in 1816 by George Henry Law, Bishop of Chester, in what was during those years the northern extremity of his diocese.