Peter Selby

The Rt Revd  Prof Peter Selby  PhD MA(Oxon) BD
Bishop of Worcester
Church	Church of England
Diocese	Diocese of Worcester
Reign ended	(retirement)
Other posts	Suffragan Bishop of Kingston-upon-Thames 1984-1991 Area Bishop of Kingston-upon-Thames 1991-1992 Asst Bishop of Durham 1992-1997 Asst Bishop of Newcastle 1992-1997
Orders
Ordination	1966
Consecration	1984
Personal details
Born	7 December 1941 (1941-12-07)
Nationality	British
Denomination	Anglican
Alma mater	St John's College, Oxford

Peter Stephen Maurice Selby (born 7 December 1941) was the Church of England Bishop of Worcester. He retired at the end of September 2007.

He was educated at St John's College, Oxford, and at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, taking the Oxford degree of MA (1967, BA 1964) and the Cambridge, Mass., degree of BD (1966). He was awarded a PhD degree by the University of London in 1975.

He was Assistant Curate, Queensbury, 1966–68; Associate Director of Training, Southwark, 1969–73; Assistant Curate, Limpsfield with Titsey, 1969–77; Vice-Principal, Southwark Ordination Course, 1970–72; Assistant Missioner, Diocese of Southwark, 1973–77; Canon Residentiary, Newcastle Cathedral, 1977–84; Diocesan Missioner, Diocese of Newcastle, 1977–84; Suffragan Bishop, 1984–91, Area Bishop, 1991–92, of Kingston-upon-Thames; William Leech Professorial Fellow in Applied Christian Theology, University of Durham, 1992-; Asst Bishop of Durham 1992-. Asst Bishop of Newcastle 1992-. 1992–97; Honorary Assistant Bishop, dioceses of Durham and Newcastle, 1992–97; Visitor General, Community of Sisters of the Church, 1991–2001, a Member of the Doctrine Commission, 1991–2003, and President of the Modern Churchpeople's Union, 1990–96 and of the Society for Study of Theology, 2003–04; Bishop to HM Prisons, 2001– and from January 2008 became the President of the National Council for Independent Monitoring Boards for prisons.

He was appointed Bishop of Worcester in 1997. Selby is styled The Right Reverend Professor Peter Selby.

Selby and the Right Reverend Dr John Saxbee were appointed Episcopal Patrons of the international No Anglican Covenant Coalition in July 2011.. In a joint letter to the Church Times, Saxbee and Selby warned that "this is a time to hold fast to Anglicanism’s inherited culture of inclusion and respectful debate which is our way of dealing with difference rather than require assent to procedures and words that have already shown themselves to be divisive."

Styles

• Peter Selby Esq (1941–1966)
• The Revd Peter Selby (1966–1975)
• The Revd Dr Peter Selby (1975–1977)
• The Revd Canon Dr Peter Selby (1977–1984)
• The Rt Revd Dr Peter Selby (1984–1992)
• The Rt Revd Prof Peter Selby (1992–present)

Bibliography

• 'Grace and Mortgage: Language of Faith and the Debt of the World', Peter Selby, Publ. Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd (1997) ISBN 0-232-52170-0
• 'Rescue: Jesus and Salvation Today', Peter Selby, Publ. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (1996) ISBN 0-687-06605-0

External links

• Diocesan web page with photograph
• No Anglican Covenant website

Church of England titles
Preceded by Keith Norman Sutton	Bishop of Kingston-upon-Thames 1984 – 1992	Succeeded by John Martin Wharton
Preceded by Philip Goodrich	Bishop of Worcester 1997 –2007	Succeeded by John Inge