Since its inception the following Clergy have been part of the life of Holy Trinity
Bishops of Worcester
1808 Folliott Herbert Walker Cornewall
99th Bishop of Worcester translated to Bristol and later to Hereford
1831 Robert James Carr
100th Bishop of Worcester translated from Chichester
1841 Henry Pepys
101st Bishop of Worcester translated from Sodor and Man
1860 Henry Philpott
102nd Bishop of Worcester
1890 John James Stuart Perowne
103rd Bishop of Worcester
1901 Charles Gore
104th Bishop of Worcester translated to Birmingham and later to Oxford
1915 Huyste Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs
105th Bishop of Worcester translated from Southward and later to Oxford
1919 Ernest Harold Pearce
106th Bishop of Worcester
1931 Arthur William Thompson Perowne
107th Bishop of Worcester translated to Bradford
1941 William Wilson Cash
108th Bishop of Worcester
1956 Lewis Mervyn Charles-Edwards
109th Bishop of Worcester
1971 Robert Wilmer Woods KCMG KCVO
110th Bishop of Worcester
1982 Philip Harold Ernest Goodrich
111th Bishop of Worcester translated from Tonbridge
In retirement he served as a honorary Assistant Bishop in the diocese of Hereford.
1997 Peter Stephen Maurice Selby
112th Bishop of Worcester translated from Kingston-upon-Thames
2008 John Geoffrey Inge KCVO
113th Bishop of Worcester translated from Huntingdon
Suffragan Bishops of Dudley
1974 Michael Ashley Mann
Later became Dean of Windsor and retired in 1989
1977 Anthony Charles Dumper
In retirement became Assistant Bishop in Diocese of Birmingham
1993 Rupert William Noel Hoare
Became 5th Dean of Liverpool and retired in 2007
2000 David Stuart Walker
Translated to become 12th Bishop of Manchester
2014 Graham Usher
Translated to become 72nd Bishop of Norwich
2020 Martin Gorick
Incumbents
1842 - 1866 John William Grier (c1811-1866)
(Died at Amblecote, January 28th, 1866 aged 56 years)
1866 - 1900 John Simon Boldero (1830-1900)
(Died at Amblecote, January 24th, 1900 aged 69 years)
1901 - 1905 Earnest George John Moore (1870-1937)
1905 - 1908 Percy Alfred Hugh Birley (c1869-....)
1908 - 1912 Bernard Thomas White-Jones (1877-1912)
(Died at Amblecote, December 12th, 1912, aged 35 years)
1913 - 1936 Henry Milton Crabbe (1879-1942)
1937 - 1940 Kenneth Frederick Morris
1940 - 1946 Stephen Pritt
1946 - 1951 Frank Carr
1951 - 1957 Ernest Harry Quibbell-Smith
1958 - 1964 Leonard Percival Budge (1911-2009)
1964 - 1970 John Bredon Hencher (1931-2011)
1970 - 2007 Paul Tongue
2008 - Present Alan Richard Williams
Assistant Priests
(In some cases the dates are uncertain and there were many periods when there was no Assistant).
1849 George Bradshaw
1851 Ralph Cumming Moreton
1853 Allan Swinburne
1854 Richard Riley
1857 Hugh Sherard
1886 Barten Wilcockson Allen
1888 George Lloyd-Jones
1889 Edward William Porter
1895 H. Micklewaite
1895 Ernest George John Moore
1898 R. B. S. Watson
1899 Henry Longueville Firmstone
1907 Carrington Charke
1910 Hubert Noke
1913 Raymond Audley Dunbar Heath
1915 Lionel Charles Littlewood
1981 - 1984 Barry Graham Carter
1984 - 1986 Keith Francis Culverwell
1985 - 1987 Margaret Edith Partridge (Deaconess)
1987 - 1989 Margaret Edith Partridge (Curate)
1987 - 1989 Stephen Grosscurth
1990 - 1994 Antony Kenneth Lane
1996 - 2001 John Anthony Corker
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Archdeacons of Dudley
1921-1934 Sydney James
1934-1951 Arthur Shepherd
afterwards Archdeacon Emeritus
1951-1968 Alfred Hurley
afterwards Archdeacon Emeritus
1968-1975 John Williams
afterwards Archdeacon of Worcester
1976-1984 Christopher Campling
afterwards Dean of Ripon
1985-1986 Robin Bennett
1987-2001 John Gathercole
2001-2013 Fred Trethewey
afterwards priest in charge Christ Church, Brittany, France
2013- Nikki Groarke
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