Nigel Stock
Religious Leader
1950 –
Who is Nigel Stock?
William Nigel Stock is the current Bishop at Lambeth, Bishop to the Forces and Bishop for the Falkland Islands.
Stock was educated at St Cuthbert's Society, Durham University and studied for ordination at Ripon College Cuddesdon. From 1976 to 1979, he was a curate at St Peter's Stockton in the Diocese of Durham.
From 1979 to 1984, he was priest-in-charge of St Peter's in Taraka in the Diocese of Aipo Rongo, Papua New Guinea. From 1985 to 1991, he was vicar of St Mark's Shiremoor in the Diocese of Newcastle; moving to become Team Rector of North Shields from 1991 to 1998. He was also Rural Dean of Tynemouth from 1992 to 1998 and an honorary canon of Newcastle Cathedral from 1997 to 1998. He was a canon residentiary of Durham Cathedral from 1998 to 2000 and also Chaplain of Grey College, Durham in 1999 and 2000. He became Bishop of Stockport in the Diocese of Chester in 2000.
Stock has been a Commissary for the Archbishop of Papua New Guinea since 1986. He entered the House of Lords as a Lord Spiritual in March 2011.
It was announced on 25 June 2013 that Stock would resign his see to become Bishop at Lambeth, the right-hand bishop to the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace.
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- Born
- Jan 29, 1950
- Education
- Ripon College Cuddesdon
- St Cuthbert's Society
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on July 23, 2013
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