John Gladwin

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The Rt Revd John Gladwin MA(Cantab)
Bishop of Chelmsford
Diocese	Diocese of Chelmsford
Installed	2004
Term ended	31 August 2009 (retirement)
Predecessor	John Perry
Successor	Stephen Cottrell
Other posts	Bishop of Guildford 1994–2004 Provost of Sheffield 1988–1994
Orders
Ordination	1967 (deacon); 1968 (priest)
Consecration	1994
Personal details
Born	1942 (age 71–72) Hertford, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Denomination	Anglican
Spouse	Lydia Adam (m. 1981)
Alma mater	Churchill College, Cambridge

John Warren Gladwin (born 1942) is the former Bishop of Chelmsford in the Church of England.^[1] He stands in the open evangelical tradition.

Gladwin was educated at Hertford Grammar School and Churchill College, Cambridge (BA 1965, MA 1968).^[2] His ministerial training was at Cranmer Hall, Durham (Diploma in Theology 1969). He was ordained deacon in 1967, priest in 1968, and bishop in 1994.^[3] He married Lydia Elizabeth Adam, daughter of the late William Adam and the late Ivy Amelia Adam in 1981.^[4] They married in Christchurch, Fulwood in the Diocese of Sheffield. The preacher was the Very Revd Brandon Jackson, Provost of Bradford Cathedral.

Born in Hertford, he was Provost of Sheffield from 1988 to 1994 and Bishop of Guildford from 1994 to 2004 when he was appointed to be Bishop of Chelmsford.^[5] He has been a member of the House of Lords since 1999.

Christian engagement with public affairs has been a constant theme throughout his ministry. For six years he was Director of the Shaftesbury Project on Christian Involvement in Society, before becoming Secretary of the Church of England’s Board for Social Responsibility. He was chair of the Ministry Division of the Church of England until 2006.

His work with Christian Aid has taken 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.^[6]

As the Bishop of Chelmsford, he has 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. On his retirement he became the Chairman of Citizens Advice.

Publications

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

References

↑ Official notification of appointment
↑ Who's Who2008: London, A & C Black ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0
↑ Debrett's People of Today London,2008 Debrett's, ISBN 978-1-870520-95-9
↑ Consecration details
↑ The Guardian, 25 June 2008, "SocietyGuardian" section p.10, Column c "Ins and Outs".

External links

Diocese of Chelmsford website

Church of England titles
Preceded by Frank Curtis	Provost of Sheffield 1988–1994	Succeeded by Michael Sadgrove
Preceded by Michael Adie	Bishop of Guildford 1994–2004	Succeeded by Christopher Hill
Preceded by John Perry	Bishop of Chelmsford 2004–2009	Succeeded by Stephen Cottrell

v t e Provosts and Deans of Sheffield

Provosts	Alfred Jarvis Howard Cruse Ivan Neill Frank Curtis John Gladwin Michael Sadgrove (became Dean)

Deans	Michael Sadgrove (previously Provost) Peter Bradley

v t e Bishops of Guildford

Suffragans	John Utterton George Sumner John Randolph

Diocesans	John Greig John Macmillan Henry Campbell Ivor Watkins George Reindorp David Brown Michael Adie John Gladwin Christopher Hill

v t e Bishops of Chelmsford

John Watts Ditchfield Guy Warman Henry Wilson Falkner Allison John Tiarks John Trillo John Waine John Perry John Gladwin Stephen Cottrell

Persondata
Name	Gladwin, John
Alternative names
Short description	Bishop of Chelmsford; Bishop of Guildford
Date of birth	1942
Place of birth	Hertford, United Kingdom
Date of death
Place of death

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