Peter Allan (priest)

Allan was born in 1950.[1] He studied music at Wadham College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1972:[1][2] as per tradition, his BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Oxon) degree in 1976.[1] In 1972, he matriculated into the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, to study theology and train for ordination.[1][2] He left the college after three years to be ordained in the Church of England.[1]

Allan was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1975 and as a priest in 1976.[1] From 1975 to 1978, he served his curacy at St Andrew's Church, Stevenage, an Anglo-Catholic parish in the Diocese of St Albans.[1][3][4] Then, from 1978 to 1982, he was chaplain of Wadham College, Oxford, and a curate of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford.[1][2]

In 1982, Allan joined the Community of the Resurrection as a novice.[2][5] In 1985, he made his vows, thereby becoming a monk and a full member of the Community of the Resurrection.[1] Since 1985, he has been the precentor of the community.[5] In 2011, he was also appointed principal of the College of the Resurrection, an Anglo-Catholic theological college that is associated with the Community of the Resurrection.[1][2] He is also a lecturer in moral theology and liturgical music at the college.[2] He stepped down as principal at the end of the 2018/2019 academic year and was succeeded by Mark Sowerby, former Bishop of Horsham.[6] In September 2019, he returned to parish life and became an assistant priest of the Severn Loop Parishes in the Diocese of Lichfield; he remains a member of the Community of the Resurrection.[7][8]

• Peter Allan; et al., eds. (1991). An English kyriale: music for the Eucharist. London: Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0005992692.
• Peter Allan; et al., eds. (1993). The Fire and the Clay: The Priest in Today's Church. London: SPCK. ISBN 978-0281047154.
• George Guiver; Peter Allan; et al., eds. (2001). Priests in a People's Church. London: SPCK. ISBN 978-0281054053.