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Clergy

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
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
I
n 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


For the complete list of Bishops of Worcester.
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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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