Kevin Roberts | |
Religion: | Christianity |
Denomination: | Anglican |
Alma Mater: | Queens' College, Cambridge |
Nationality: | British |
Birth Name: | Kevin Thomas Roberts |
Birth Date: | 1955 10, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Saltburn-by-the-Sea |
Post: | Archdeacon of Carlisle (2006–2016) Acting Archdeacon of Wells (2016–present) |
Kevin Thomas Roberts[1] was the Archdeacon of Carlisle[2] from 2009[3] until 2016. He has been the Acting Archdeacon of Wells since 5 September 2016.[4]
Born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea on 11 October 1955, he was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge and ordained in 1984.[5] Following curacies at Beverley Minster and St John the Evangelist Church, Woodley,[6] he was Vicar of Holy Trinity, Meole Brace from 1991 to 2009.
He is a director of the Simeon Trustees, a trust established in the nineteenth century by Charles Simeon to purchase advowsons for Anglican ministers aligned with the Evangelical Anglicanism.[7]