Richard Burridge (priest)
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The Reverend Canon Richard Burridge |
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| Dean of King's College London | |
| Church | Church of England |
| In office | 1994 to present |
| Predecessor | Reginald Askew |
| Other posts | Canon Theologian, Salisbury Cathedral (2013–present) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1985 (deacon) 1986 (priest) |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Richard Alan Burridge |
| Born | 11 June 1955 |
| Nationality | British |
| Denomination | Anglicanism |
| Spouse |
Susan Morgan (m. 1979; div. 2009) Megan Warner (m. 2014) |
| Children | Two |
| Alma mater |
University College, Oxford University of Nottingham |
Richard Alan Burridge (born 11 June 1955) is a Church of England priest and biblical scholar. He is Dean of King's College London, where he is also Professor of Biblical Interpretation (Biblical Exegesis).
Burridge was born on 11 June 1955 to Alan Burridge and Iris Joyce Burridge (née Coates). He was educated at University College, Oxford where he received an MA and the University of Nottingham where he read for a PhD. His doctoral thesis on the genre of the gospels was published in 1992 as What are the Gospels? A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography and is highly influential in that it played a key part both in establishing that the Gospels were read as biographies in the first centuries after Christ and that they belonged to a recognized literary genre of biographies rather than being unprecedented writings which reflected the faith and life of the post-Easter church.
Burridge's early career was as a school teacher. From 1978 to 1982, he was a schoolmaster teaching classics and a house tutor at Sevenoaks School, an independent school in Sevenoaks, Kent.
Burridge trained for the Anglican priesthood at St John's College, Nottingham. He was ordained deacon in 1985 and priest in 1986 and was curate at St Peter and St Paul, Bromley, Kent (1985-1987).
Richard Burridge has been Dean of King's College London since 1994, and he was elected as a Fellow of King's College (FKC) in 2002. From 2007 to 2012, Burridge was Director of New Testament Studies, and in 2008 he was appointed to a Personal Chair in Biblical Interpretation. Richard Burridge is a member of the Church of England's General Synod, and chaired their Validation Panel for ordination training and theological education (1996-2004); he is currently serving as a representative of the Church Commissioners and as Deputy Chair on the Church of England's Ethical Investment Advisory Group. Richard Burridge was a Trustee of Cumberland Lodge, between 1998 and 2008.
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