Peter Selby

Peter Selby (born 7 December 1941) was the Church of England Bishop of Worcester. He retired at the end of September 2007.

He was educated at St John's College, Oxford, and at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, taking the Oxford degree of MA (1967, BA 1964) and the Cambridge, Mass., degree of BD (1966). He was awarded a PhD degree by the University of London in 1975.

He was Assistant Curate, Queensbury, 1966–68; Associate Director of Training, Southwark, 1969–73; Assistant Curate, Limpsfield with Titsey, 1969–77; Vice-Principal, Southwark Ordination Course, 1970–72; Assistant Missioner, Diocese of Southwark, 1973–77; Canon Residentiary, Newcastle Cathedral, 1977–84; Diocesan Missioner, Diocese of Newcastle, 1977–84; Suffragan Bishop, 1984–91, Area Bishop, 1991–92, of Kingston-upon-Thames; William Leech Professorial Fellow in Applied Christian Theology, University of Durham, 1992–97; Honorary Assistant Bishop, dioceses of Durham and Newcastle, 1992–97; Visitor General, Community of Sisters of the Church, 1991–2001, a Member of the Doctrine Commission, 1991–2003, and President of the Modern Churchpeople's Union, 1990–96 and of the Society for Study of Theology, 2003–04; Bishop to HM Prisons, 2001– and from January 2008 became the President of the National Council for Independent Monitoring Boards for prisons.

He was appointed Bishop of Worcester in 1997. Selby is styled "the Right Reverend Dr Peter Stephen Maurice Selby".

Bibliography

* 'Grace and Mortgage: Language of Faith and the Debt of the World', Peter Selby, Publ. Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd (1997) ISBN 0-232-52170-0
* 'Rescue: Jesus and Salvation Today', Peter Selby, Publ. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (1996) ISBN 0-687-06605-0

External links

* [http://www.cofe-worcester.org.uk/media/photos/bishop3.php Diocesan web page] with photograph