Gregory Venables

The Most Revd Gregory Venables
Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Church of South America, Bishop of Argentina
Church	Anglican Church of South America
In office	2016-present
Predecessor	Tito Zavala
Orders
Ordination	1985
Consecration	1993
Personal details
Born	6 November 1949

Gregory James Venables (born 6 December 1949) is an English Anglican bishop. He has served as the Primate of the Southern Cone in South America from 2001 until 2010, and once again since 2016. He is also diocesan bishop of Argentina.

Venables was educated at Chatham House Grammar School, Kingston University and Christ Church University College Canterbury, after which he was successively a computer systems officer and a school teacher.

Venables was ordained as a deacon in 1984 and one year later as priest. He started his ordained ministry, serving with the Anglican Church in Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina. He was headmaster of St Andrew's College, Asuncion, Paraguay, from 1978 until 1989. He was ordained to the episcopate in 1993.

Venables was elected Archbishop of South America for the first time in 2001, serving until 2010. He became a significant leader of the Anglican realignment during his tenure. He was once again elected at the provincial synod held in Santiago, Chile on 7-10 November 2016

Venables is an honorary Fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University. He is also the Patron of the Federation of Anglican Churches in the Americas.

Venables has been married to Sylvia Margaret (née Norton) since 1970 and they have one son, two daughters and seven grandchildren.

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