Rob Wickham
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The Right Reverend Rob Wickham |
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| Bishop of Edmonton | |
| Church | Church of England |
| Diocese | Diocese of London |
| In office | 23 September 2015 – present |
| Predecessor | Peter Wheatley |
| Other posts |
Area Bishop in the Diocese of London (23 September 2015 – present) Area Dean of Hackney (2014–2015) Rector of the Church of St John-at-Hackney (2007–2015) Team Vicar of the Parish of Old St Pancras (2003–2007) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1998 (deacon) 1999 (priest) |
| Consecration | 23 September 2015 by Justin Welby |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Robert James Wickham |
| Born | 3 May 1972 |
| Education | Hampton School |
| Alma mater |
Grey College, Durham King's College London |
Robert James "Rob" Wickham (born 3 May 1972) is a British Anglican bishop. Since September 2015, he has been the area Bishop of Edmonton. From 2003 to 2007, he was Team Vicar of the Parish of Old St Pancras. From 2007 to 2015, he was Rector of the Church of St John-at-Hackney; he was additionally Area Dean of Hackney from 2014. He has spent all of his ecclesiastical career in the Diocese of London.
Wickham was born on 3 May 1972. He was educated at Hampton School, an all-boys independent school in Hampton, London. After a gap year, he studied geography at Grey College, Durham. He graduated from the University of Durham with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1994. He then spent a year working at St Luke's Church, Wallsend, an Anglo-Catholic church in a deprived area of North Tyneside. In 1995, he entered Ridley Hall, Cambridge, a Church of England theological college, where he spent three years studying for ordination to the priesthood.
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