1. John Perumbalath was born on 23 May 1966 and is a British retired Anglican bishop.
20 Facts About John Perumbalath
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John Perumbalath became Bishop of Liverpool in the Church of England Diocese of Liverpool in July 2023.
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John Perumbalath had previously been Archdeacon of Barking and the area Bishop of Bradwell, both in the Diocese of Chelmsford.
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John Perumbalath grew up in the Syrian Christians of India community.
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John Perumbalath obtained his first university degree from Calicut University, studying at St Mary's College, Sulthan Bathery.
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John Perumbalath was a seminarian at the Union Biblical Seminary, Pune, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1990.
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John Perumbalath pursued doctoral research in hermeneutics under Judith Lieu at King's College London from 2001 to 2004 but discontinued and later submitted the dissertation for a PhD from North-West University, South Africa, in 2007.
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John Perumbalath worked among university students as a staff worker of the Evangelical Union for two years in his home state of Kerala before training for ordination.
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John Perumbalath was ordained in the Church of North India as a deacon in 1994 and priest in 1995 for the Diocese of Calcutta.
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John Perumbalath was then team vicar of the benefice of Northfleet and Rosherville and vicar of All Saints, Perry Street, Northfleet.
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On 9 March 2018, John Perumbalath was announced as the next Bishop of Bradwell, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Chelmsford.
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John Perumbalath was consecrated as bishop by Archbishop Justin Welby on 3 July 2018 at St Paul's Cathedral, and was installed at Chelmsford Cathedral on 22 July.
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John Perumbalath was enthroned in the Liverpool Cathedral on 22 April 2023.
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John Perumbalath is the Church of England's Lead Bishop for Porvoo Communion of churches and is on the communion-wide advisory group of the USPG, an Anglican mission society.
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John Perumbalath had been interviewed under caution by police in March 2024 in relation to this accusation, but no further action was taken.
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John Perumbalath stated that this was caused by the "rush to judgment and my trial by media has made my position untenable" and that it "is not a resignation occasioned by fault or by any admission of liability".
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John Perumbalath is influenced by Oriental Orthodox, evangelical and Anglo-Catholic traditions, and follows a Benedictine framework for spirituality.
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John Perumbalath was born in the ancient Syrian Christian community in Kerala and trained for ordination at Union Biblical Seminary, a leading evangelical training college in India.
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John Perumbalath affirms the ordained ministry of women and belongs broadly to the inclusive catholic tradition within the Church of England.
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John Perumbalath is married to Jessy who is a mathematics teacher.