Richard Chartres

Richard Chartres, Bishop of London , 2013

Richard John Carew Chartres, Baron Chartres GCVO , PC (born July 11, 1947 in Ware , Hertfordshire ) is a British clergyman and Bishop Emeritus of London of the Church of England . He was the 132nd Bishop of London from 1995 to early 2017 . He was previously Auxiliary Bishop of Stepney (1992-1995) in the Diocese of London and Professor at Gresham College (1987-1992). In November 2017 he was promoted to life peer .

biography

Chartres attended Richard Hale School and Trinity College , from which he graduated with a Master of Arts (MA). He attended lectures in history before the Ripon College Cuddesdon and at Lincoln Theological College Theology studied.

He was ordained a priest in 1974. During the 1970s he was chaplain at Robert Runcie , the then Bishop of St Albans and later Archbishop of Canterbury , and was awarded a Lambeth Degree, one awarded by the Archbishop of Canterbury bachelor's degree as Bachelor of Divinity .

Chartres have received honorary doctorates from St. Mary's University College Twickenham , Brunel University and the City and Metropolitan Universities . He was named Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in the Queen's Birthday Honors 2009 . In principle, this would entitle him to use the address "Sir". However, Anglican clergy do not. Chartres was elected a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL).

Chartres has been married to Caroline Chartres, a publishing editor and program director, since 1982. They have four children together.

Offices

In 1995 Chartres became Prelate of the Order of the British Empire and Dean of the Chapel Royal .

He is an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple , a Liveryman a member of the Merchant Taylor's Company, the representative of the London merchants, and an Honorary Freeman of the Weavers' Company . Richard Chartres is also a member of the Privy Council . In 1997 he became chaplain of the Venerable Order of Saint John .

He was one of the executors of Diana and gave a speech at her memorial service in 2007. He also led the ceremony of confirmation of Prince William . On September 12, 2009, he married Lord Frederick Windsor with actress Sophie Winkleman at the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace .

He is one of the sponsors of Prospex , a charitable institution that young people cared for in North London, and patron and Fellow of the Burgon Society for the history and stylistics of academic official dress (Academic Dress).

Chartres is also the patron of the Georgian Group . He is the founder and chairman of the board of trustees of the St Ethelburga Center for Reconciliation and Peace . He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Co-exist and serves on the Advisory Board of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation .

In October 2005 Chartres and Marianne Suhr, who had already initiated the restoration of St Giles in the Fields in London , launched a new project to conserve London's old, historic churches.

Chartres is responsible for the Church of England's relations with the Orthodox churches . Therefore, he represented the church at the funeral service for the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexius II and the inauguration of his successor, Patriarch Kyrill I in Moscow .

Commitment to environmental protection

Since its launch in 2006, Chartres has led the Church of England's Shrinking the Footprint campaign , which aims to reduce the Church of England's CO ₂ emissions by 60% by 2050.

At the beginning of the campaign and afterwards, Chartres criticized the pollution of the environment from vacation travel by air. Michael O'Leary , chairman of the airline Ryanair , responded by saying, “The Bishop of London has empty churches: if no one went on vacation, his believers might come back and listen to his sermons. God bless the bishop! "

After criticism that he himself used flights for his diocesan work, and that he also had a chauffeur-driven car for his business trips, and thereby violated the ideals of his campaign, Chartres undertook not to use flights for a year. Chartres uses an Oyster Card for private trips .

In January 2006, Chartres was criticized in the media, including the BBC , for spending Easter on a cruise ship giving lectures on theology instead of leading the service at St Paul's Cathedral , despite Chartres for two months from was exempt from his ecclesiastical and academic duties.

In October 2008 the Independent on Sunday listed him as one of the 100 environmentalists in Great Britain on their 'Green List' (he came in at number 75).

Gresham lectures

Chartres wrote a book, A Brief History of Gresham College 1597-1997 . This was based on a three-part series of lectures he gave in May 1992 when he was Professor of Theology at Gresham College , London. During the first lecture of the original lecture series, he called the college "a magical island like Atlantis," vanished into the ocean and then reappeared. This was an allusion to the group "Invisible College" in Oxford , from which the Royal Society in London emerged, as well as to Francis Bacon's Nova Atlantis . At the second lecture he distanced himself from any occult remarks.

Other Gresham lectures by Chartres included prayer , which he strongly distinguished from magic , in the fall of 1991, the Shroud of Turin in November 1988, and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem , where he also shared background information on the Gresham Jerusalem Project . He also gave a personal account of his stay in an ancient monastery in Egypt in December 1989 , where he went for walks with a Christian religious leader who was painting large patterns in the desert sands as he tried to explain absurd and contradicting points in theology.

House of Lords

As Bishop of London, he had held a seat as Spiritual Lord in the British House of Lords . After resigning from the episcopate in early 2017, he was promoted to Life Peer as Baron Chartres , of Wilton in the County of Wiltshire , on November 7, 2017 , and received a new seat in the House of Lords. In parliament he is on the side of the Crossbencher .

Title and salutation

• Richard Chartres (1947-73)
• The Revd Richard Chartres (1973-86)
• The Revd Professor Richard Chartres (1986-92)
• The Rt Revd Richard Chartres (1992-95)
• The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Richard Chartres (1995-98)
• The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dr Richard Chartres (1998-2009)
• The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dr Richard Chartres KCVO (2009-17)
• The Rt Revd and Rt Hon The Lord Chartres KCVO (2017-19)
• The Rt Revd and Rt Hon The Lord Chartres GCVO (2019-present)

Honors

Richard Chartres is an honorary cathedral preacher at the Berlin Cathedral.

Web links

• Biography of Richard Chartres at the Diocese

Individual evidence

1. ^ London Gazette , November 6, 1995
2. ↑ Diocese of London - Bishop of London announces retirement in 2017 , accessed September 25, 2017
3. ↑ London Gazette , May 15, 1992
4. ↑ London Gazette  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 13, 2009  
5. ^ London Gazette , December 1, 1995
6. ↑ London Gazette , January 16, 1997
7. ↑ Support from on high for good project! ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , press release at maintainyourbuilding.org.uk, accessed July 23, 2008 
8. ↑ Church launches Shrinking The Footprint campaign ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Church of England, published June 2, 2006, accessed May 1, 2007 
9. ↑ O'Leary gives sermon to bishop on travel 'sins' . In: Irish Independent , July 27, 2006. Retrieved March 24, 2007. 
10. ^ The green cross code, The Guardian , June 14, 2007
11. ^ Bishop in Easter lecture cruise . In: BBC News , January 23, 2006. Retrieved March 24, 2007. 
12. ↑ The IoS Green List: Britain's top 100 environmentalists . In: The Independent on Sunday , October 12, 2008. Retrieved October 13, 2008. 
13. ^ Richard Chartres, David Vermont: A Brief History of Gresham College 1597-1997 . Gresham College, London 1998, ISBN 094782216X , p. 100.
14. ↑ London Gazette , November 13, 2017
15. ^ Lord Chartres at parliament.uk