Ferran Glenfield Explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Reverend
Ferran Glenfield
Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh
Church:Church of Ireland
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Term:2013 to present
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Predecessor:Ken Clarke
Consecration:31 May 2013
Birth Name:Samuel Ferran Glenfield
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Nationality:Irish British
Religion:Anglicanism
Spouse:Jean Glenfield
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Alma Mater:Trinity College, Dublin
Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
Warwick University[1]
Bishop Name:Ferran Glenfield
Dipstyle:The Right Reverend
Offstyle:My Lord
Relstyle:Bishop

Samuel Ferran Glenfield (born 1954) is an Irish Anglican bishop. Glenfield is the current Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh.[2]

Personal life

Glenfield is married to Jean, a teacher at Wesley College Dublin.They have three children.

Education and ecclesiastical career

Glenfield was educated at Queen's University Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1992. His first post was a curacy at Douglas, County Cork.[3] He then served incumbencies in Rathcooney, Kill O'The Grange (County Dublin) and Hillsborough.

Since Glenfield's installation he has been instrumental in reforming the administrative councils that comprise the Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh. He is a conservative evangelical renowned for his biblical teaching,[4] before elevation to the episcopate.[5]

He is a supporter of Anglican realignment and in 2014 visited the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina, which left the Episcopal Church of the United States as a result of doctrinal differences.[6] He attended GAFCON III, held on 17–22 June 2018, in Jerusalem. This move was criticized by some members of the clergy.[7]

Notes and References

  1. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/77124/1/WRAP_THESIS_Glenfield_2015.pdf PhD Thesis, 2015
  2. http://www.downanddromore.org/news/2013/05/Revd-Ferran-Glenfield-consecrated-Bishop-of-Kilmore-Elphin-and-Ardagh Down and Dromore
  3. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
  4. Web site: Lisburn Today . 15 July 2013 . 2 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402122245/http://www.lisburntoday.co.uk/news/local-news/new-rector-instituted-for-hillsborough-parish-1-3828745 . dead .
  5. http://ireland.anglican.org/news/4448 Ireland Anglican
  6. http://www.dkea.ie/bishop-address-south-carolina/ Bishop writes about his trip to South Carolina, Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, Church of Ireland Dioceses Official Website
  7. https://www.virtueonline.org/ireland-bishops-presence-gafcon-absolute-disgrace IRELAND: Bishops' presence at Gafcon an "absolute disgrace", Virtue Online, 24 June 2018