The Right Revd Nigel McCulloch comes to Manchester after ten years as Bishop of Wakefield. His northern credentials go back even further. He was born and brought up in Crosby in Liverpool and was educated at Liverpool College. Biography He read theology at Selwyn College, Cambridge Trained for the priesthood at Cuddesdon College, Oxford Ordained in Chester Cathedral in 1966 Curate in the large urban parish of Ellesmere Port (1966-70) Chaplain to Christ’s College Cambridge (1970-1973) Director of Studies in Theology there (1970-1975) Diocesan Missioner in the Norwich Diocese (1973-1978) Archdeacon of Sarum and Rector of the city-centre church of St Thomas’s, Diocese of Salisbury (1978-1986) Suffragan Bishop of Taunton, Diocese of Bath and Wells, 1986-1992 Diocesan Bishop of Wakefield since 1992 Appointed Lord High Almoner to The Queen in 1997 He is Chairman of the West Yorkshire Ecumenical Council and Chairman of the Police Standards Committee for West Yorkshire He was appointed earlier this year to be the honorary national chaplain to the Royal British Legion.
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