David Picken Explained

David Anthony Picken (born Hednesford, Staffordshire, 5 June 1963) is a British Anglican priest. Since 2020, he has served as the Archdeacon of Lancaster; he previously served as Archdeacon of Newark since 2012.^[1]

Picken was educated at Kingsmead School, Hednesford and the University of London. He was firstly a teacher of Religious Studies; then ordained deacon in 1990, and priest in 1991.^[2] After a curacy in Worth, West Sussex he was Team Vicar and Hospital Chaplain in Wordsley then Team Rector of High Wycombe^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: David Picken - Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham. southwell.anglican.org. 2017-09-04. 5 September 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170905002216/http://southwell.anglican.org/person/david-picken/. dead.
2. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
3. ‘PICKEN, Ven. David Anthony’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016 ; online edn, Nov 2016