James Stuart Jones

James Stuart Jones (born August 18, 1948 ) was the 7th Anglican Bishop of Liverpool until 2013 . As the successor to David Sheppard , he took this position in 1998. Previously he was suffragan bishop for Hull in the Diocese of York of the Church of England . He retired in August 2013. Paul Bayes succeeded him in 2014 .

Jones, who received a Bachelor of Arts degree in theology from the University of Exeter in 1971 and trained at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford , first worked as a teacher at Sevenoaks School , where he initiated one of the first UK student community programs . He co-founded the UK's first volunteer agency. Between 1975 and 1981 he worked as an editor for the Scripture Union , a Bible society, and then as chaplain and second pastor at Christ Church in the Diocese of Bristol . During this time he also worked as a lecturer at Trinity College in Bristol. From 1990 to 1994 he was pastor of Emmanuel Church in South Croydon in the Diocese of Southwark and head of the Episcopal Examination Board. In 1994 he was appointed suffragan bishop of Hull. Jones has been married to Sarah Marrow since 1980; they have three daughters.

He is considered evangelical and was part of a group of bishops who signed a protest against the proposed appointment of Jeffrey John as Bishop of Reading. In the anthology A Fallible Church ( A Fallible Church , 2008), however, he apologized for this and advanced the argument that the Bible provides positive models for same-sex relationships.

Jones was a Spiritual Lord in the House of Lords from 2003 to August 2013 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bishop of Liverpool James Jones to retire in August BBC News, January 28, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2014
2. ^ Guardian

Web links

• Homepage on the pages of the Diocese of Liverpool with biography and picture
• Article in The Guardian
• Biography on Parliament.uk

predecessor	Office	successor
Donald Snelgrove	Bishop of Hull 1994–1998	Richard Frith
David Sheppard	Bishop of Liverpool 1998-2013	Paul Bayes