Charles Taylor (priest)

Charles William Taylor is the current Dean of Peterborough.^[1]

Taylor was born into an ecclesiastical family on 16 March 1953^[2] and educated at St Paul’s Cathedral Choir School, Marlborough, Cambridge and Cuddesdon. He was ordained in 1977^[3] and his first post was as a Curate at the Collegiate Church of St Peter, Wolverhampton. After this he was a Chaplain at Westminster Abbey from 1979 to 1984 and then the Vicar of Stanmore with Oliver’s Battery in the Diocese of Winchester until 1990. He was Rector of North Stoneham and Bassett in the same diocese until 1995 when he became a Tutor in Liturgy at Salisbury and Wells Theological College. He was a Canon Residentiary and Precentor at Lichfield Cathedral for 12 years before his Peterborough appointment.^[4]

References

↑ Cathedral web site
↑ He is the son of the Reverend Prebendary Richard John Taylor, sometime Vicar of Streetly > Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
↑ Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) ISBN 0-7151-8088-6
↑ Lichfield Anglican

Church of England titles
Preceded by Michael Bunker	Dean of Peterborough 2007–	Succeeded by Current appointment

Deans of Peterborough

Early modern	Francis Alree/Abree/Leycester Gerard Carleton James Curthoppe John Boxall William Latymer Richard Fletcher Thomas Nevile John Palmer Richard Clayton George Meriton Henry Beaumont William Piers John Towers Thomas Jackson John Cosin Edward Rainbowe James Duport Simon Patrick Richard Kidder Samuel Freeman White Kennett Richard Reynolds Edward Gee John Mandeville Francis Lockier John Thomas Robert Lamb Charles Tarrant Charles Manners-Sutton Peter Peckard

Late modern	Thomas Kipling James Monk Thomas Turton George Butler Augustus Saunders John Perowne Marsham Argles William Ingram William Barlow Arnold Page James Simpson Noel Christopherson Dick Wingfield-Digby Randolph Wise Michael Bunker Charles Taylor

Diocese of Peterborough

Peterborough Cathedral Bishop's Lodging, The Palace, Peterborough The Palace, Peterborough

Office holders	The Bishop of Peterborough, Donald Allister The Bishop suffragan of Brixworth, John Holbrook AEO: Norman Banks, Bishop suffragan of Richborough The Dean of Peterborough, Charles Taylor The Archdeacon of Northampton, Christine Allsopp The Archdeacon of Oakham, Gordon Steele

Historic offices	Archdeacon of Leicester (1837–1926; became Diocese of Leicester) Archdeacon of Loughborough (1921–1926; became Diocese of Leicester)

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