Michael Higgins (priest)

Michael John Higgins OBE^[1] was an Anglican priest.^[2]

He was born on 31 December 1935, educated at Whitchurch Grammar School, Cardiff, the University of Birmingham and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He was a lecturer in English Law at the University of Birmingham before preparing for ordination at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He was a curate at Ormskirk Parish Church from 1965 to 1968^[3] and then Selection Secretary for the Advisory Council for Church Ministry until 1974. He was Vicar of Frome and then Rector of Preston before his appointment as Dean of Ely in 1991, a post he held for 12 years.

References

↑ BBC News
↑ Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 Lambeth, Church House,1975 ISBN 0-19-200008-X

Church of England titles
Preceded by William James Patterson	Dean of Ely 1991 – 2003	Succeeded by Michael John Chandler

Deans of Ely

Early modern	Robert Steward Andrew Perne John Bell Humphrey Tyndall Henry Caesar/Adelmare William Fuller William Beale Richard Love Henry Ferne Edward Martin Francis Wilford Robert Mapletoft John Spencer John Lamb John Wickart Charles Roderick Robert Moss John Frankland Peter Allix Hugh Thomas William Cooke

Late modern	William Pearce James Wood George Peacock Harvey Goodwin Charles Merivale Charles Stubbs Alexander Kirkpatrick Lionel Blackburne Patrick Hankey Michael Carey Allan Shaw William Patterson Michael Higgins Michael Chandler David Pritchard (Acting) Mark Bonney

Diocese of Ely

Ely Cathedral Isle of Ely Bishop's House, Ely Bishop Woodford House

Office holders	The Bishop of Ely, Stephen Conway The Bishop suffragan of Huntingdon, David Thomson AEO: Norman Banks, Bishop suffragan of Richborough The Dean of Ely, Mark Bonney The Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Wisbech, Hugh McCurdy The Archdeacon of Cambridge, Alex Hughes

Historic offices	Archdeacon of Ely (c. 1106–ren. 2006) Archdeacon of Bedford (1837–1914) Archdeacon of Wisbech (1915–c. 2002)

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