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John Packer

The Right Reverend
John Packer
Bishop of Ripon and Leeds
Diocese Ripon and Leeds
Installed 16 July 2000
Term ended 31 January 2014
Predecessor David Young, Bishop of Ripon
Successor Merged into the Diocese of Leeds
Other posts Bishop of Warrington
1996–2000
Orders
Ordination 1970
Consecration November 1996
Personal details
Born (1946-10-10) 10 October 1946 (age 70)
Blackburn, Lancashire
Nationality British
Denomination Anglican
Residence Hollin House, Weetwood
Spouse Barbara Jack (m. 1971)
Children 1 daughter & 2 sons
Alma mater Keble College, Oxford

John Richard Packer (born 10 October 1946) is a retired British Anglican bishop. He was the only Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, serving from the renaming of the diocese from Ripon in 2000 to its merge into the Diocese of Leeds in 2014.

Born in Blackburn, Lancashire, firstly educated in Manchester Grammar School, Packer graduated from Keble College, Oxford, with a Bachelor of Arts in modern history in 1967 and from Ripon Hall, Oxford, with a Bachelor and a Master of Arts in theology in 1975.

Packer became a deacon in 1970 and was Curate of St Helier, in Southwark, until 1973. Ordained as priest in 1971, he worked in Abingdon in Berkshire (and then Oxfordshire) from 1973 to 1977. Between 1973 and 1975, he was Tutor at Ripon Hall, and between 1975 and 1977 at Ripon College Cuddesdon. In the following, Packer was Vicar of Wath-upon-Dearne with Adwick-upon-Dearne until 1986, and from 1986 to 1991 team rector at Sheffield Manor. He was twice Rural Dean, firstly of Wath from 1983 to 1986, and secondly of Attercliffe in 1990 and 1991. Until 1996, he was Archdeacon of West Cumberland, having been also priest-in-charge in Bridekirk in 1995 and 1996.


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