Nicholas Stewart Reade was born on 9 December 1946 and is a retired British Anglican bishop.
12 Facts About Nicholas Reade
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Nicholas Reade was the Bishop of Blackburn in the Province of York from 2004 to 2012.
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Nicholas Reade was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey and the University of Leeds.
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Nicholas Reade has completed a Bachelor of Arts degree and a diploma in theology.
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Nicholas Reade was ordained in 1973, after studying at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield.
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Nicholas Reade began his ordained ministry with a curacy at St Chad's Coseley.
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Nicholas Reade was then appointed priest in charge of Holy Cross Bilbrook and then the vicar of St Peter's Upper Gornal.
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Nicholas Reade was Canon and Prebendary of Chichester Cathedral between 1990 and 1997.
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Nicholas Reade was ordained to the episcopate on 2 March 2004, and installation as Bishop of Blackburn at Blackburn Cathedral on 27 March 2004.
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Nicholas Reade had been announced as the new bishop in August 2003.
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Nicholas Reade is a member of The Society, a traditionalist Anglo-Catholic society of the Church of England.
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In February 2012, the diocese announced that Nicholas Reade was to retire on 31 October 2012.