Richard Gillings

Richard John Gillings was Archdeacon of Macclesfield from 1994 ^[1] to 2010.^[2] Born on 17 September 1945,^[3] he was educated at Sale Grammar School and St Chad's College, Durham. He was ordained after a period of study at Lincoln Theological College in 1971 and began his career with a curacy in Altrincham.^[4] After this he was Priest in charge at St Thomas’, Stockport^[5] and then Rector of Birkenhead Priory. From 1993 to 2005 he was Vicar of Bramhall.

Notes

↑ Church news The Times (London, England), Monday, August 22, 1994; pg. 16; Issue 65039
↑ Chester Anglican
↑ ‘GILLINGS, Ven. Richard John’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011 ; online edn, Nov 2011 accessed 14 July 2012
↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
↑ Church web site

Church of England titles
Preceded by John Gaisford	Archdeacon of Macclesfield 1994–2004	Succeeded by Ian Bishop

Archdeacons of Macclesfield

James Kelly Arthur Gore Maxwell Woosnam Maitland Wood Edward Mercer John Thorpe John Armitstead Frank Okell Tyler Whittle Thomas Clarke Harry Saunders Francis House Rennie Simpson John Gaisford Richard Gillings Ian Bishop

Diocese of Chester

Chester Cathedral Bishop's House, Chester Church House, Chester St John's, Chester

Office holders	The Bishop of Chester, Peter Forster The Bishop suffragan of Birkenhead, Keith Sinclair The Bishop suffragan of Stockport, Libby Lane AEO: Glyn Webster, Bishop suffragan of Beverley The Dean of Chester, Gordon McPhate The Archdeacon of Chester, Michael Gilbertson The Archdeacon of Macclesfield, Ian Bishop