The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Richard Chartres (born July 11, 1946) is the 132nd Bishop of London, being installed on September 26, 1996. He was previously Bishop of Stepney (1992 - 1995) and Gresham Professor of Divinity. July 11 is the 192nd day (193rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 173 days remaining. ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Arms of the Bishop of London The Bishop of London is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury. ... September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 96 days remaining. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The Diocese of London forms part of the Province of Canterbury in England. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gresham College is an unusual institution of higher learning in London which enrols no students and grants no degrees. ...

Chartres was educated at Hertford Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge before studying theology at Cuddesdon and Lincoln Theological colleges. He was ordained as a priest in 1974 and was married in 1982. Full name The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity Motto Virtus vera nobilitas Virtue is true Nobility Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names Kings Hall and Michaelhouse (until merged) Established 1546 Sister College Christ Church Master Sir Martin Rees Location Trinity Street Undergraduates 656 Graduates 380 Homepage... Theology is literally reasonable discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). By extension, it also refers to the study of other religious topics. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He is a Privy Counsellor. A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, especially in a monarchy. ...

He wrote History of Gresham College 1597 - 1997. This was based upon a three part lecture series given in May 1992, whilst Chartres was Professor of divinity there. During the first lecture of the original lecture series he referred to the College as a 'magical island like Atlantis' disappearing and re-emerging from the sea. This was a reference both to the Invisible College and Francis Bacon's New Atlantis. At the second lecture he was keen to disassociate himself from any occult references. 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Royal Society of London is claimed to be the oldest learned society still in existence. ... Sir Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans (January 22, 1561 – April 9, 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, spy, freemason and essayist. ... Francis Bacon, in The New Atlantis (1626), depicts a mythical land, Bensalem, to which he sailed. ...

Other Gresham lectures by Chartres covered prayer (which he keenly distinguished from magic), Autumn 1991, the Shroud of Turin, November 1988, and the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem where he not only made certain revelations about the Gresham Jerusalem Project but also gave a personal account of a month he spent at an ancient monastery in Egypt where he would go on moonlight walks with a Christian leader who would trace great patterns in the sand as he sought to explain abstruse points of theology, December 1989. The first photo of the Shroud of Turin, taken in 1898, had the surprising feature that the image on the negative was clearer than the positive image. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jerusalem (31°46′ N 35°14′ E; Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם Yerushalayim; Arabic: القدس al-Quds; see also names of Jerusalem) is an ancient Middle Eastern city of key importance to the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Chartres is also a patron and fellow of the Burgon Society for the study of academical dress. The Burgon Society was founded in 2000 for the study and promotion of academical dress, to preserve its history, and to advise film and television companies and interested others in the correct usage of academical dress. ...