John Gladwin

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For the English middle-distance runner, see John Gladwin (athlete).
Provost of Sheffield
1988–1994
Orders
Ordination1967 (deacon)
1968 (priest)
Consecration1994
Personal details
Born (1942-05-30) 30 May 1942 (age 81)
Hertford, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglican
SpouseLydia Adam (m. 1981)
Alma materChurchill College, Cambridge

John Warren Gladwin (born 30 May 1942) is a retired

open evangelical
tradition.

Early life

Gladwin was born on 30 May 1942 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England.[2] He was educated at Hertford Grammar School, an all-boys school in Hertford, Hertfordshire.[3] He studied theology and history at Churchill College, Cambridge (BA 1965, MA 1968).[4][5] He undertook further theological study and training for ordination at Cranmer Hall, Durham (Diploma in Theology 1969).[4][5]

Ordained ministry

Gladwin was

curacy at St John the Baptist Parish Church, Kirkheaton in the Diocese of Wakefield.[4] He then returned to Durham, where he was a tutor of St John's College, Durham and an honorary chaplain to students at St Nicholas Church, Durham between 1971 and 1977.[5]

From 1977 to 1982, Gladwin was director of the Shaftesbury Project on Christian Involvement in Society:

Provost of Sheffield, the senior priest of Sheffield Cathedral and the Diocese of Sheffield.[5]

He was ordained a bishop in 1994,[7] and served as Bishop of Guildford from 1994 to 2004 when he was appointed to be Bishop of Chelmsford.[8] He was a member of the House of Lords from 1999 until his retirement in 2009. As the Bishop of Chelmsford, he sought to embrace the vast diversity of the second largest diocese in the Church of England. In late 2008 he announced that he would retire on 31 August 2009. Since 2010, he has held permission to officiate in the Diocese of St Albans.[4]

On 11 February 2017, Gladwin was one of fourteen retired bishops to sign an open letter to the then-serving bishops of the Church of England. In an unprecedented move, they expressed their opposition to the House of Bishops' report to General Synod on sexuality, which recommended no change to the Church's canons or practises around sexuality.[9] By 13 February, a serving bishop (Alan Wilson, Bishop of Buckingham) and nine further retired bishops had added their signatures;[10] on 15 February, the report was rejected by synod.[11]

Charity work

From 1998 to 2008, he was

chairman of the board of Christian Aid.[5] His work with Christian Aid took him around the world, where he has seen at first hand the work of many Christians who are committed to working alongside the world's most needy people. He served as chair for 10 years, being succeeded in June 2008 by Anne Owers.[12] On his retirement as bishop, he became the Chairman of Citizens Advice, serving in that role from 2009 to 2015.[5]

Personal life

He married Lydia Elizabeth Adam, daughter of the late William Adam and the late Ivy Amelia Adam in 1981.

Provost of Bradford
.

Publications

  • God's People in God's World, 1979
  • The Good of the People, 1988
  • Love and Liberty, 1997

References

  1. ^ Official notification of appointment Archived 16 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Birthdays today". The Telegraph. 30 May 2013. Archived from the original on 30 May 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2014. the Rt Rev J.W. Gladwin, Chairman, Citizen's Advice; Bishop of Chelmsford, 2003–09, 71
  3. ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
  4. ^ a b c d e f "John Warren Gladwin". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  5. ^
    Who's Who 2020
    . Oxford University Press. 1 December 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  6. ^ "The Shaftesbury Project on Christian Involvement in Society". Third Way. 5 (2): 21. February 1982. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  7. ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0
  8. ^ Consecration details[permanent dead link]
  9. Stephen Lowe, Stephen Platten, John Pritchard, Peter Selby, Tim Stevens, Martin Wharton, and Roy Williamson
    .)
  10. John Davies, Peter Maurice, David Rossdale, John Saxbee, Martin Shaw, Oliver Simon, and David Stancliffe
    .
  11. ^ The Guardian — Church of England in turmoil as synod rejects report on same-sex relationships (Accessed 17 February 2017)
  12. ^ The Guardian, 25 June 2008, "SocietyGuardian" section p.10, Column c "Ins and Outs".
  13. ISBN 978-1-870520-95-9

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Church of England titles
Preceded by
Provost of Sheffield

1988–1994 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of Guildford
1994–2004 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of Chelmsford
2004–2009 		Succeeded by
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