Stephen Pedley Explained

Stephen Pedley
Bishop of Lancaster
Diocese:Diocese of Blackburn
Term:1998–2005
Predecessor:Jack Nicholls
Successor:Geoff Pearson
Other Post:Honorary assistant bishop in Newcastle (2005–present)
Honorary Chaplain to the Queen (1984–1998)
Consecration:20 March 1998[1]
Birth Date:13 September 1940
Religion:Anglican
Parents:Geoffrey Knight & Muriel Pedley
Spouse:Mary Macdonald (m. 1970)
Children:2 sons; 1 daughter
Alma Mater:Queens' College, Cambridge

Geoffrey Stephen Pedley (known as Stephen;[2] born 13 September 1940[3]) was the Bishop suffragan of Lancaster from 1998 until 2005.[4]

He was educated at Marlborough and Queens' College, Cambridge.[5] Ordained in 1966 after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon he began his career with curacies in Liverpool and Coventry before a spell in Zambia. Returning to England in 1977 he became Vicar of St Peter's, Stockton-on-Tees[6] and then Whickham before becoming a Residentiary Canon at Durham Cathedral,[7] a post he held until his elevation to the Episcopate.

References

  1. https://archive.today/20000818053003/http://www.priory.lancs.ac.uk/timeline.html#selection-6831.0-6831.4 Lancaster Priory Timeline – 1998
  2. http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/section.asp?id=3876 Church Times — Gazette 9 September 2005
  3. http://www.burkes-peerage.net/familyhomepage.aspx?FID=0&FN=PEDLEY(GEOFFREY)STEPHEN Burkes’s Peerage details
  4. http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page9922 Resignation details
  5. Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008
  6. Who's Who (Ibid)
  7. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]