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, Southern Rhodesia, and then of St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham, before his ordination to the episcopate. A keen mountain walker, he was married with two sons and in retirement continued to serve the church as an 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