Ferran Glenfield

The Right Reverend

Ferran Glenfield
Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh
ChurchChurch of Ireland
In office2013 to present
PredecessorKen Clarke
Orders
Consecration31 May 2013
Personal details
Born
Samuel Ferran Glenfield

1954 (age 69–70)
NationalityIrish British
DenominationAnglicanism
SpouseJean Glenfield
Alma materTrinity College, Dublin
Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
Warwick University[1]
Styles of
Ferran Glenfield
Reference styleThe Right Reverend
Spoken styleMy Lord
Religious styleBishop

Samuel Ferran Glenfield (born 1954) is an Irish Anglican bishop. Glenfield is the current Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh.[2]

Personal life

Glenfield is married to Jean, a teacher at Wesley College Dublin.They have three children.

Education and ecclesiastical career

Glenfield was educated at Queen's University Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1992. His first post was a curacy at Douglas, County Cork.[3] He then served incumbencies in Rathcooney, Kill O'The Grange (County Dublin) and Hillsborough.

Since Glenfield's installation he has been instrumental in reforming the administrative councils that comprise the Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh. He is a conservative evangelical renowned for his biblical teaching,[4] before elevation to the episcopate.[5]

He is a supporter of Anglican realignment and in 2014 visited the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina, which left the Episcopal Church of the United States as a result of doctrinal differences.[6] He attended GAFCON III, held on 17–22 June 2018, in Jerusalem. This move was criticized by some members of the clergy.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ PhD Thesis, 2015
  2. ^ Down and Dromore
  3. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0
  4. ^ "Lisburn Today". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  5. ^ Ireland Anglican
  6. ^ Bishop writes about his trip to South Carolina, Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, Church of Ireland Dioceses Official Website
  7. ^ IRELAND: Bishops' presence at Gafcon an "absolute disgrace", Virtue Online, 24 June 2018
Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh
2013- 		Incumbent