The Right Reverend Peter Wheatley |
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Bishop of Edmonton | |
Wheatley in 2009
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Church | Church of England |
Province | Canterbury |
Diocese | London |
See | Edmonton |
In office | 1999 to 2014 |
Predecessor | Brian Masters |
Successor | Rob Wickham |
Other posts | Archdeacon of Hampstead (1995–1999) |
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Ordination | 1973 (deacon) 1974 (priest) |
Consecration | March 1999 by George Carey |
Personal details | |
Born | 7 September 1947 |
Nationality | British |
Denomination | Anglican |
Spouse | Unmarried |
Children | None |
Alma mater | The Queen's College, Oxford |
Peter Wheatley (born 7 September 1947) is a retired bishop in the Church of England. From 1995 to 1999, he was the Archdeacon of Hampstead. From 1999 to 2014, he was the Bishop of Edmonton, an area bishop in the Diocese of London.
Educated at Ipswich School, The Queen's College, Oxford, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, Wheatley trained for ordination at the College of the Resurrection and Ripon Hall, Oxford and was ordained in 1973.
Wheatley served his curacy at All Saints Church, Fulham, becoming vicar of Holy Cross in St Pancras, London in 1978. In 1982, he moved to become priest-in-charge of All Souls' Hampstead and St Mary's Kilburn. He also became vicar of St James' in West Hampstead at this time.
While remaining a parish priest, Wheatley became the Director of Post-Ordination Training in 1988 for the Edmonton area. Between 1988 and 1993, he was also Area Dean of North Camden and was a member of the General Synod from 1975 to 1995. He became Archdeacon of Hampstead in 1995.
Wheatley was consecrated as Bishop of Edmonton in March 1999.