Colin Hill (priest)

Colin Hill (born 4 September 1942) is an English Anglican priest[1] and author.[2]

Biography

Hill was born on 4 September 1942, educated at the University of Leicester and Ripon College, Oxford ordained in 1967[3] Following curacies in Leicestershire he was vicar of St Thomas and St James, Worsbrough Dale from 1972 to 1978. He was then Churches Planning Officer for Mission and Ministry in Telford, Rural Dean in both Lichfield and Hereford Dioceses and Prebendary of Hereford Cathedral before becoming a canon residentiary and diocesan secretary at Carlisle Cathedral in 1996. He gained his Doctorate in 1988 (Living in two worlds: A study of the variety and characteristics of church life and policies in selected Church of England parishes. PhD thesis Open University). He was the archdeacon of West Cumberland from 2004 until his retirement in 2008.[4]

References
  1. ’HILL, Ven. Colin’, 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 5 Dec 2012
  2. Amongst others he has written "A Deanery Workbook", 1988; "Religious Movements in a Neo-Weberian Perspective", 1992; "Loosing the Apron Strings: devolution to deaneries", 1996; "Appointing the Rural Dean", 2004; and "Deans and Deaneries: lessons from Norway" > British Library web site accessed 12:13 GMT Wednesday 5 December 2012
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975–76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  4. Whitehaven News Archived 10 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine


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