Andrew Burnham (clergyman)

Andrew Burnham (clergyman)

Andrew Burnham, SSC, ARCO (CHM) (b. 1948) is the current and third Bishop of Ebbsfleet in the Diocese of Canterbury.

Burnham was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire and studied Music at New College, Oxford. He later read theology at Ripon College Cuddesdon before going on to do a Certificate of Education at Westminster College. Following this, he became Head of Music at Bilborough Grammar School in Nottingham.

He trained for the ministry at St Stephen's House, Oxford, although following ordination he had issues with committing to the priesthood and leaving music, a great passion of his which formed a major part of his life. The Bishop of Southwell therefore suggested that he became a non-stipendiary priest. However, his wife Cathy eventually persuaded him to devote himself to full time ministry. [Interview with Burnham upon his appointment as Bishop of Ebbsfleet - http://www.ebbsfleet.org.uk/ndrlab00.htm]

From 1983 to 1985, Burnham was honorary curate at Clifton in the Diocese of Southwell as a non-stipendiary priest. In 1985, he became curate at St. John the Baptist Church, Beeston in the same diocese from 1985 until 1987. He then became vicar of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Carrington, leaving in 1994 following his appointment as Vice-Principal of St Stephen's House, Oxford—a role he took up in 1995.

He was announced as the third Bishop of Ebbsfleet on 12 September 2000, [Press release by the Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, upon Burnham's ascension to the episcopate - http://www.ebbsfleet.org.uk/abcprab.htm] and the appointment was confirmed by Letters Patent issued by Queen Elizabeth II on 22 November 2000. [LondonGazette|issue=56041|notarchive=yes|startpage=13353|date=27 November 2000|accessdate=2008-08-12]

Move to unity with the Catholic Church

On 8 July 2008, Burnham announced that he plans to try to lead his Anglo-Catholic parishioners into unity with the Roman Catholic Church because of the controversy of episcopal ordination of women in the Church of England. In a column in the Catholic Herald, Burnham asked Pope Benedict XVI to provide a way for his parishioners to join him in the move.cite web
url=http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/articles/a0000323.shtml
title=Anglo-Catholics must now decide
author=Rt Rev Andrew Burnham, Bishop of Ebbsfleet
date=2008-07-11
accessdate=2008-07-10
publisher=Catholic Herald] cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7499852.stm
title= Bishop 'ready to defect to Rome'
accessdate=2008-07-10
publisher=BBC News]

tyles

*Mr Andrew Burnham (1948–1982)
*The Revd Andrew Burnham (1982–2000)
*The Rt Revd Andrew Burnham (2000–)

References

External links

* [http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/articles/a0000323.shtml ‘Anglo-Catholics must now decide’. By the Rt Rev Andrew Burnham, Bishop of Ebbsfleet. 11 July 2008] at the Catholic Herald


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