Peter Hall (bishop) explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Rt Revd
Peter Hall
Honorific-Suffix:MA(Cantab)
Bishop of Woolwich
Diocese:Diocese of Southwark
Term:1984–1996
Predecessor:Michael Marshall
Successor:Colin Buchanan
Other Post:Area bishop of Woolwich (1991–1996)
Honorary assistant bishop in Birmingham (1997–present)
Ordination:1955 (deacon); 1956 (priest)
Consecration:1984
Birth Date:2 September 1930
Religion:Anglican
Parents:William & Bertha
Spouse:Valerie Page (m. 1957)
Children:2 sons
Alma Mater:St John's College, Cambridge

Albert Peter Hall (2 September 1930  - 27 December 2013) was the Bishop of Woolwich from 1984 until 1996[1] and the first area bishop under the 1991 area scheme.[2] [3]

Hall was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, and St John's College, Cambridge.[4] Ordained in 1956 he began his ministry as a curate at St Martin's, Birmingham after which he was the Rector of Avondale, Harare and then St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham before his ordination to the episcopate. A keen mountain walker, he was married with two sons[5] and in retirement continued to serve the church as an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Birmingham.

Notes and References

  1. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
  2. Web site: 4: The Dioceses Commission, 1978–2002 . Church of England. 23 April 2013.
  3. News: THE Rt REVD ALBERT PETER HALL. 12 June 2015. Church Times. 10 January 2014.
  4. ‘HALL, Rt Rev. (Albert) Peter’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011 http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U18602, accessed 10 July 2012
  5. [Debrett's]