19 Facts About Pete Broadbent

Pete Broadbent was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, Middlesex.

Pete Broadbent was 15 years of age when he became a committed Christian through the Crusaders youth organisation.

Pete Broadbent studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge, and then studied theology at St John's College, Nottingham, before being ordained.

Pete Broadbent was ordained a deacon at Michaelmas 1977 and a priest the next Michaelmas, both times by John Habgood, Bishop of Durham, at Durham Cathedral.

Pete Broadbent moved to the Diocese of London in 1980 to be curate of Emmanuel Church, Holloway and the Chaplain for Mission to Jim Thompson, Bishop of Stepney.

Pete Broadbent has served on the General Synod of the Church of England for over 15 years and was a member of its standing committee.

Pete Broadbent is active in Spring Harvest, Europe's largest annual Christian conference.

Pete Broadbent was consecrated a bishop on 25 January 2001, having legally taken the See of Willesden in a ceremony immediately beforehand.

Pete Broadbent was one of three serving bishops in the Church of England to refuse to attend the 2008 Lambeth Conference, a gathering of all Anglican bishops convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury every 10 years, as part of a protest against the ordination of gay clergy.

Pete Broadbent chaired the Diocesan Board for Schools for London from 1996 to 2006 and from 1999 to 2003 was on the governing body of the City Parochial Foundation.

Pete Broadbent is a member of the Labour Party and was a councillor for the London Borough of Islington from 1982 and 1990, being the chair of their Development and Planning Committee.

Pete Broadbent was later acting area Bishop of Edmonton between the retirement of Peter Wheatley on 31 December 2014 and the consecration of Rob Wickham on 23 September 2015.

Pete Broadbent additionally served as acting diocesan Bishop of London between the retirement of Richard Chartres and the consecration of Sarah Mullally.

Pete Broadbent is a trustee of the Church of England Newspaper.

On 1 October 2021, Pete Broadbent received the Bishop of London's permission to officiate and licence as an honorary assistant bishop of the diocese; and became the Bishop's Adviser.

Pete Broadbent is married to Sarah and they have an adult son.

Pete Broadbent's views were reported in various Sunday newspapers and were widely condemned.

Pete Broadbent subsequently issued an apology for his remarks and agreed to "withdraw from public ministry until further notice" on 23 November 2010.

Pete Broadbent remained as acting Bishop of Stepney until 22 July 2011.