Peter Price (bishop)
Peter Bryan Price (born 17 May 1944) is an English Anglican bishop. He has been the Bishop of Bath and Wells in the Church of England since 2001, and will retire from that post in June 2013. He has sat in the House of Lords as one of the Lords Spiritual since 2008.
Price attended Oak Hill Theological College. He was ordained a deacon in 1974 and a priest in 1975. He has been Chancellor of Southwark Cathedral, Suffragan Bishop of Kingston-upon-Thames, chairman of the Southwark Diocesan Board of Mission, and General Secretary of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (USPG). He broadcasts for BBC World Service and Independent Radio in London. He was presented with the Coventry Cross of Nails in 1999, an award for his reconciliation efforts.
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