Mike Hill (Bishop)

Mike Hill, 2018

Michael Arthur "Mike" Hill (born April 17, 1949 in Manchester ) is a British Anglican clergyman and the current Bishop of Bristol .

life and career

Hill was born on April 17, 1949 in Manchester to Arthur and Hilda Hill. His parents were entrepreneurs, his mother was of German-Jewish descent and his father was American. Hill has a sister. He has been interested in football since childhood . He attended Wilmslow County Grammar School . The Christian faith played no role in his youth. He attended church for the first time when he was 18 .

He received a degree in economics from the North West Cheshire College of Further Education . After that he worked for some time as an employee in the printing industry . In the early 1970s, he went to the Scargill Community for a year to see if he was fit for a priesthood in the Church of England .

There he met his future wife Anthea, a nurse who had lived in Africa . They married in 1973. Their first child was later born in Cambridge . Four more children followed over the next ten years.

From 1974 Hill attended Fitzwilliam College and Ridley Hall College in Cambridge. Between 1977 and 1981 Hill was curate of St. Mary Magdalene , in Addiscombe , Croydon . For the next two years he was a curate at St. Paul's Church in Slough .

From 1983 to 1990 he was acting priest in charge of St. Leonards, Chesham Bois . During this time Hill was heavily influenced by the independent American parish of the Willow Creek Community Church ; he then also became the first President of the Willow Creek Association (UK). From 1990 to 1992 he was then an ordinary pastor in Chesham Bois. At the same time he took over the office of dean of Amersham from 1989 to 1992 .

Hill was Archdeacon of Berkshire from 1992 to 1998 and moved his family to Newbury . From 1998 to 2003 he was auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Oxford as Bishop of Buckingham . His wife Anthea worked as a nurse in palliative care during this time .

Hill became the 55th Bishop of Bristol in 2003. Since then he has campaigned for an increase in the number of church members in his diocese.

He is a member of the board of directors and supervisory boards of several commercial enterprises, as well as the director of various schools and works on several church committees. He is also, since 2009 president of the Church Pastoral Aid Society (CPAS), a leading mission agency of the Anglican Church , mainly in the UK and Ireland operates.

Membership in the House of Lords

Hill has been a Spiritual Lord in the House of Lords since 2009 . Introduced there on July 16, 2009, he took his oath of office in the company of the Bishop of Newcastle, Martin Wharton , and the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Peter Price .

Private

Michael Hill runs his own blog . In an interview with Church Times , Michael Hill stated that he was very interested in sports , particularly tennis , rugby and soccer . He's a fan of Manchester United . In his spare time he likes to read detective novels by Henning Mankell .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bishop Mike's story biography at www.wordpress.com
2. ↑ Biography of Michael Hill at the Church of England ( memento of the original from March 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ CPAS welcomes Bishop of Bristol as new president in: Christian Today, November 10, 2009
4. ↑ Michael Hill on the homepage of the House of Lords
5. ↑ Mike Hill The Bishop of Bristol's blog
6. ↑ Interview: Mike Hill Bishop of Bristol in: Church Times, November 3, 2006
7. ↑ The Right Revd Michael Hill ( Memento of the original of July 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Homepage St. Michael's and all Angels 

predecessor	Office	successor
Colin Bennetts	Bishop of Buckingham 1998-2003	Alan Wilson
Barry Rogerson	Bishop of Bristol since 2003	-