Career
Cyril Ashton trained for the Anglican ministry at Oak Hill Theological College, London, and began a curacy at St Thomas, Blackpool in 1967. He was then successively: Vocations Secretary to the Church Pastoral Aid Society (1970–1974); Vicar of St Thomas, Lancaster (1974–1991); and finally, before his elevation to the Episcopate, was Director of Training for the Diocese of Blackburn (1991–2000).
In 1986 he gained an M.A. degree at Lancaster University. He was made an Honorary Canon of Blackburn Cathedral in 1991. He was also the course director of the Post-Graduate Diploma at Cliff College, Derbyshire from 1995.
Cyril Ashton retired as Bishop of Doncaster on 13 July 2011, with a farewell service at St George's Minster, Doncaster.
During his 17 years’ incumbency at St Thomas Lancaster, Cyril Ashton developed a distinctive ministry in the charismatic renewal movement and encouraged the open use of charismatic gifts in the main Sunday services. In addition to the normal Anglican offices of the Parochial Church Council, Cyril also introduced an additional tier of church leaders who were styled as ‘elders’.
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