Michael Hooper (bishop) explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Rt Revd
Michael Hooper
Bishop of Ludlow
Diocese:Diocese of Hereford
Term:2002–2009
Predecessor:John Saxbee
Successor:Alistair Magowan
Other Post:Assistant bishop in Worcester (2010–present)[1]
ex officio also Archdeacon of Ludlow (2002–2009)
Archdeacon of Hereford (1997–2002)
Ordination:1965 (deacon); 1966 (priest)
Consecration:2002
Birth Date:2 May 1941
Religion:Anglican
Spouse:Rosemary Edwards (m. 1968)
Children:2 sons; 2 daughters
Alma Mater:St David's College, Lampeter

Michael Wrenford Hooper (born 2 May 1941) is a retired Anglican bishop in the Church of England who also served as the suffragan Bishop of Ludlow from 2002 to 2009.[2]

Hooper was educated at the Crypt School in Gloucester and the University of Wales, Lampeter. He was ordained in 1966 and became a curate at St Mary Magdalene's Bridgnorth[3] and was then, successively, priest in charge at Habberley; Rural Dean of Pontesbury,[4] and then Leominster;[5] and finally, before his ordination to the episcopate, the Archdeacon of Hereford.

He is married with four children.[6]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.cofe-worcester.org.uk/pdf_lib/192.pdf Worcester Diocesan News – April 2010
  2. http://www.anglicancommunion.org/tour/cathedral.cfm?IDNUMBER=15531 Anglican Communion
  3. http://www.achurchnearyou.com/10435/ A church near you
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009, Church House Publishing,
  5. Debrett's People of Today, London, Debrett's, 2008,
  6. "Hooper, Rt Rev. Michael Wrenford", Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011 http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U42432, accessed 5 July 2012.