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Paul Ferguson (bishop)

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Paul John Ferguson, FRCO (born 13 July 1955)[1] is a Church of England bishop. Since 2014, he has been the Bishop of Whitby.[2]

Ferguson was educated at Birkenhead School; New College, Oxford; and Westcott House, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon in 1985, and priest in 1986. After a curacy at St Mary, Chester he was Curate, Chaplain, Sacrist and Precentor at Westminster Abbey from 1988 to 1995. After this he was Precentor and a Residentiary Canon at York Minster until his appointment as Archdeacon of Cleveland in 2001.[3]

He was consecrated at York Minster on 3 July 2014 by John Sentamu, Archbishop of York.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Paul John Ferguson". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  2. ^ WHITBY, Bishop Suffragan of’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016 ; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 12 March 2017
  3. ^ "Suffragan Bishop of Whitby: Paul John Ferguson". News. GOV.UK. 2 May 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  4. ^ "Consecrations of two new North Yorkshire bishops". BBC News. 3 July 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2014.



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