Michael Colclough

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Michael Colclough is the current Bishop of Kensington in the Diocese of London[1]. He has held this post since 1996.

Colclough was born in Staffordshire and was ordained in 1971 following training for the priesthood at Leeds University and Ripon College, Oxford. His first curacy was at St Weburgh's in Burslem, a parish in the Diocese of Lichfield[2].

He moved to the Diocese of London in 1975, serving a second curacy at St Mary in South Ruislip before becoming priest-in-charge of St Anselm in Hayes. He was later appointed Area Dean of Hillingdon and Team Rector of Uxbridge. Colclough was made Archdeacon of Northolt in 1992[3]

In 1994, he became Archdeacon at London House and PA to the Bishop of London. In 1995, he became a Deputy Priest in Ordinary to HM Queen Elizabeth II. He was consecrated Bishop of Kensington on 24 September 1996 at St Paul's Cathedral.

He is Vice-President of The Christian Children's Fund of Great Britain - a post he has held since 1998 - and he became Patron of the Micro Loan Foundation in 1999.

He has been Chairman of the London Diocesan Communications Group, Dean of University Chaplains and Chairman of the Industrial Mission Team.

As Bishop of Kensington, he has been given "special responsibility for Prison Chaplains within the Diocese" and is Chairman of the London and Southwark Dioceses Prisons and Penal Concerns Group.

Furthermore, he chairs the Mission, Evangelism and Renewal in England Committee of the Board of Mission and is on the Council of the North Thames Ministerial Training Course.[4].

In 2007 he was appointed a Canon Residentiary of St Paul's Cathedral and installed on the 20th April 2008 as Canon Pastor.[5]

[edit] Styles

  • Mr Michael Colclough (1944-1971)
  • The Revd. Michael Colclough (1971-1992)
  • The Ven. Michael Colclough (1992-1996)
  • The Rt. Revd. Michael Colclough (1996-)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Who’s Who 2008 (London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 9780713672576
  2. ^ Crockford's clerical directory 1975:Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN 0108153674
  3. ^ Predecessors and successors
  4. ^ Michael Colcloughs biographical details
  5. ^ News of appointment
Church of England titles
Preceded by
John George Hughes		 Bishop of Kensington
1996 –		 Succeeded by
Current Incumbent
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