10 Facts About Alastair Cutting

Alastair Cutting was consecrated as Bishop of Woolwich on July 3 2024 in Southwark Cathedral.

Alastair Cutting grew up in South India where his parents worked at a rural hospital and "where four generations of his family lived and worked for nearly a century".

Alastair Cutting took a gap year between school and university, during which he worked with the Salvation Army in South India.

Alastair Cutting then returned to England, working as a science laboratory technician at a school.

Alastair Cutting graduated in 1983 with a Bachelor of Education degree.

Alastair Cutting graduated with a Master of Arts degree in 2003.

Alastair Cutting was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1987 and as a priest in 1988.

Alastair Cutting served his curacy in the Diocese of Sheffield at All Saints Church, Woodlands from 1987 to 1988, and then at Wadsley Parish Church from 1989 to 1991.

In 1996, Alastair Cutting moved to the Diocese of Chichester where he took up his first incumbency as Vicar of St John the Evangelist, Copthorne, West Sussex.

Alastair Cutting was priest-in-charge of Holy Trinity with St Augustine, Sydenham, between 2015 and 2019.