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Bishop of Woolwich

Albert Peter Hall (2 September 1930 – 27 December 2013) was the Bishop of Woolwich from 1984 until 1996[1] and the first area bishop under the 1991 area scheme.[2][3]

Hall was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, and St John's College, Cambridge.[4] Ordained in 1956 he began his ministry as a curate at St Martin's, Birmingham after which he was the Rector of Avondale, Southern Rhodesia, and then of St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham, before his ordination to the episcopate. A keen mountain walker, he was married with two sons[5] and in retirement continued to serve the church as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Birmingham.

1. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0
2. ^ "4: The Dioceses Commission, 1978–2002" (PDF). Church of England. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
3. ^ "THE Rt REVD ALBERT PETER HALL". Church Times. 10 January 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
4. ^ ‘HALL, Rt Rev. (Albert) Peter’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011 [1], accessed 10 July 2012
5. ^ Debrett's People of Today London, 1992 Debrett's ISBN 1-870520-09-2

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