The Most Reverend Doctor Idris Jones in procession at St Mary's Cathedral
Date: 31 May 2006
Photographer: Stewart D. Macfarlane

The Most Reverend Idris Jones (born 1943) is a clergyman of the Scottish Episcopal Church, in which he serves as Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway and Primus of the whole church. The Most Reverend (Most Rev. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... The Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway is the Ordinary of the Scottish Episcopal Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway. ... The Primus, styled The Most Revd the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, is the presiding bishop of the Scottish Episcopal Church. ...

Education and Ministry

He graduated from St David's University College, Lampeter in 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts, whereupon he read for his Licentiate in Theology at the University of Edinburgh, being ordained deacon in 1967. He was ordained priest in 1968 and served as curate of Stafford Parish Church until 1970. From 1970 to 1973 he was precentor of St Paul's Cathedral in Dundee. Following this, he became team vicar of St Hugh's in Gosforth for seven years. He was awarded his doctorate by the New York Theological Seminary in 1984. In 1989 he became rector of Montrose and Anglican chaplain to the University of Dundee. From 1992 to 1998 he was team rector of Ayr, Maybole and Girvan until his election as Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway.^[1] University of Wales, Lampeter Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan   University of Wales, Lampeter (Welsh: Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan) is a university in Lampeter, Wales, the oldest degree awarding institution in Wales, and the third oldest in England and Wales after Oxford and Cambridge. ... Lampeter (Welsh: Llanbedr Pont Steffan, or more informally, Llambed) is a town in Ceredigion, Wales, United Kingdom, lying at the confluence of the River Teifi and the River Dulas. ... A B.A. issused as a certificate Bachelor of Arts (B.A., BA or A.B.), from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus is an undergraduate bachelors degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. ... LTh is the usual abbreviation for the Licence in Theology or Licentiate in Theology, a theological qualification commonly awarded for ordinands and laymen studying theology in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. ... The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1582,[4] is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... Ordination is the process in which clergy become authorized by their religious denomination and/or seminary to perform religious rituals and ceremonies. ... Deacon is a role in the Christian Church which is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. ... . ... From the Latin curatus (compare Curator), a curate is a person who is invested with the care, or cure (cura), of souls of a parish. ... This article is about the town of Stafford, England. ... A parish church is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches. ... A Precentor is a person, usually a clergy member, who is in charge of preparing worship services. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Dundee (disambiguation). ... In the broadest sense, a vicar (from the Latin vicarius) is anyone acting as a substitute or agent for a superior (compare vicarious). In this sense, the title is comparable to lieutenant. ... There are a number of people known by the name of Saint Hugh, at least three of whom are regarded as Christian saints, and each is known only as Saint Hugh: Please see one of the following: Hugh of Cluny (1024 - 1109), monastic Hugh of Grenoble (1052 - 1132), bishop Hugh... Gosforth is an area of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England to the north of the city centre. ... The New York Theological Seminary was established as a non-denominational institution in 1900 with the founding of the Bible Teachers’ College in Montclair, New Jersey by Wilbert Webster White. ... The word rector (ruler, from the Latin regere) has a number of different meanings, but all of them indicate someone who is in charge of something. ... Montrose is the name of several places in the world. ... The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ... A chaplain is typically a member of the clergy serving a group of people who are not organized as a mission or church; lay chaplains are also found in some settings such as universities. ... The University of Dundee is the principal university in the city and Royal burgh of Dundee, Scotland. ... The Royal Burgh of Ayr (Scottish Gaelic, Inbhir Àir) in the south-west of Scotland is a burgh situated on the Firth of Clyde. ... Maybole is a burgh of barony and police burgh of Ayrshire, Scotland. ... Girvan is a burgh in South Ayrshire, Scotland, with a population of about 8000 people. ...

Primus

Dr Jones was elected as Primus by his fellow bishops 18 May 2006, succeeding the retiring Bruce Cameron. Following a tied election result his name was chosen as sole candidate by drawing of lots, whereupon he was unanimously elected Primus.^[2] May 18 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (139th in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... The Most Revd Bruce Cameron became Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church on 1 November 2000. ...

Notes

1. ^ The Most Revd Idris Jones. Anglican Communion Office. Retrieved on 2007-03-05.
2. ^ New Primus for the Scottish Episcopal Church. Scottish Episcopal Church (2006-05-18).