Ferran Glenfield

The Right Reverend
Samuel Ferran Glenfield
Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh
Predecessor Ken Clarke
Personal details
Born 1954
Nationality Irish
Denomination Church of Ireland (Anglican)
Spouse Jean Glenfield
Alma mater Trinity College, Dublin Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
Styles of
Ferran Glenfield
Reference style The Right Reverend
Spoken style My Lord
Religious style Bishop

Samuel Ferran Glenfield, B.A., M.A., M.Th. (Oxon:), M.Litt., Ph.D (Warwick),[1] (born 1954) is an Irish Anglican bishop. Glenfield is the current Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh.[2]

Personal life

Glenfield is married to Jean, a teacher at Wesley College Dublin. The couple have 3 children, Michael, Richard and Esther. Michael studied at St. Andrew's University before going on to work as a teacher in Bristol. Richard studied at the Irish Baptist College and has worked in churches in Hillsborough and South Carolina. Esther graduated with a first from Queens' College, Cambridge, and currently resides in Liverpool.

Education and ecclesiastical career

Glenfield was educated at Queen's University Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1992. His first post was a curacy at Douglas, County Cork.[3] He then served incumbencies in Rathcooney, Kill O'The Grange (County Dublin) and Hillsborough

Since Glenfield's installation he has been instrumental in reforming the administrative councils that comprise the Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh. He is a conservative evangelical who is renowned for his biblical teaching,[4] before elevation to the Episcopate.[5]

Glenfield is a supporter of the Anglican realignment and he visited the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, who left the Episcopal Church of the United States, because they opposed their pro-homosexuality stance, in May 2014.[6] He attended GAFCON III, held on 17-22 June 2018, in Jerusalem.[7]

Notes

  1. ↑ PhD Thesis, 2015
  2. ↑ Down and Dromore
  3. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0
  4. ↑ Lisburn Today
  5. ↑ Ireland Anglican
  6. ↑ Bishop writes about his trip to South Carolina, Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, Church of Ireland Dioceses Official Website
  7. ↑ IRELAND: Bishops' presence at Gafcon an "absolute disgrace", Virtue Online, 24 June 2018
Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by
Kenneth Herbert Clarke		 Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh
2013-		 Incumbent
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