Kevin Roberts (priest) explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.carlislediocese.org.uk/people-and-structures/archdeacons.html Photo
  2. http://www.cdrex.com/the-venerable-kevin-thomas-roberts/570479.html CDREX
  3. http://www.christiantoday.co.uk/article/shrewsbury.vicar.becomes.next.archdeacon.of.carlisle/21520.htm Christian Today
  4. http://www.bathandwells.org.uk/2016/09/appointment-venerable-kevin-roberts-2/ Diocese of Bath & Wells — Appointment: Kevin Roberts
  5. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
  6. ‘ROBERTS, Kevin Thomas’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 3 Dec 2012
  7. Web site: Simeon's Trustees - Officers . beta.companieshouse.gov.uk . Companies House . 24 August 2020 . en.