Early Life and Career
Educated at Lancing College and Queens' College, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1956 and began his ministry with a curacy at Rottingdean. He next received basic monastic training at Kelham Theological College. In 1960 he and his identical twin brother Michael founded a monastic community, the Community of the Glorious Ascension, of which he was Prior until his elevation to the episcopate. Whilst Prior of CGA, he combined his duties as a religious with several other pastoral roles, including three years as Vicar of Hoar Cross in Staffordshire.
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