Bishop David Jennings

About Bishop David Jennings

Bishop David served as Bishop of Warrington from 2000 until his retirement in 2009.

Date of Birth: 13 th July 1944 at Somerset 

1952 - 1957 Summer Fields, near Oxford

1958 - 1962 Radley College, Abingdon, Oxfordshire

1963 Teaching at Ruzawi School, Marondera, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)

1963 - 1966 King's College, London (A.K.C.)

1966 - 1967 St. Boniface Theological College, Warminster, Wiltshire

1967 - 1969 St. Mary's, Walton-on-the-Hill, Liverpool : Assistant Curate
a parish of 25,000 people; two churches; two church schools; one of the largest general hospitals in the country; the Rector and three curates all living in the Rectory

1969 Married Sally Fynn, from Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
Three sons:- Andrew: Peter: Michael:

1969 - 1973 Christchurch, Hampshire : Assistant Curate
a parish of 30,000 people, next to Bournemouth, a vast Priory church; three other churches; a hospital; a school - an amazing contrast to Liverpool!

1973 - 1980 Hythe, Near Southampton : Vicar
a village which had grown to 9,000 with the coming of the oil refinery at Fawley and two generating stations on the edge of the Solent; two churches

1974 - 1980 Member of the Winchester Diocesan Advisory Committee

1977 - 1982 Pastoral Selector for Ordination Candidates

1980 - 1992 St. Edward the Confessor, Romford : Vicar
a fascinating town centre parish with two huge church schools, of which I was Chairman; a lunch-time ministry to shops and offices
Member of the Havering Education Committee

1983 - 1992 Chairman of the Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education

1983 - 1992 Chairman of the Roger Reedes Almshouses

1985 - 1992 Rural Dean of Havering (24 churches, 48 clergy)

1986 to date Commissary in the U.K. for the Bishop of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands

1987 - 1992 Non-residentiary Canon of Chelmsford Cathedral

1992 - 2000 Archdeacon of Southend
185 churches, 155 clergy and lay workers
Chairman of the Chelmsford Diocesan Board of Education
(with 137 church schools)
Development Officer for the Essex Church Council for Industry and Commerce, with a care for the 14 Industrial Chaplains working in a selection of diverse industries across Essex and East London.

1995 - 2000 Trustee of the Royal Association in aid of deaf people

1997 - to date Senior Selector for Ordination Candidates

1997 - 2000 Member of the General Synod of the Church of England

2000 - to 2009 Bishop of Warrington

Interests: Reading; music; researching family history; old motor cars; exploring England with the Pevsener Buildings of England series.
 

Contact Bishop David

You can contact Bishop David via

Right Reverend David Jennings
St James' House
20 St James Road
Liverpool
L1 7BY

Secretary: Nerys Cooke
Tel: 0151 705 2140
nerys.cooke@liverpool.anglican.org