Colin Podmore

Colin Podmore MBE FRHistS
Born	Colin John Podmore (1960-02-22) 22 February 1960 (age 61) Redruth, England
Alma mater	Keble College, Oxford Selwyn College, Cambridge
Occupation	Ecclesiastical historian, ecclesiastical official
Office	Clerk to the General Synod of the Church of England (2011–2013) Director of Forward in Faith (since 2013)

Colin John Podmore MBE FRHistS (born 22 February 1960) is an English ecclesiastical historian and a senior layperson in the Church of England. Between April 2013 and February 2020 he was the director of Forward in Faith, a traditionalist Anglo-Catholic organization within the church. He was previously the secretary of the House of Clergy of the General Synod (2002–2011) and clerk to the General Synod (2011–2013).^[1][2]

Early life ans education[]

Podmore was born on 22 February 1960 in Redruth, Cornwall, England.^[1] He studied history at Keble College, Oxford, and trained as a teacher at Selwyn College, Cambridge. After a period of work as a schoolteacher he came back to the University of Oxford as a researcher and his D.Phil. thesis on the Moravian Church in England was subsequently published.^[2]

Honours[]

In 2002, Podmore was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).^[1] In June 2017, he was awarded the Lanfranc Award for Education and Scholarship by the Archbishop of Canterbury "for services to education and scholarship in support of the Church of England and the wider Church".^[3] In the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to the Church of England.^[4]

Selected works[]

• Hüffmeier, Wilhelm; Podmore, Colin (1996). Leuenberg, Meissen and Porvoo: Consultation between the Churches of the Leuenberg Church Fellowship and the Churches Involved in the Meissen Agreement and the Porvoo Agreement. Frankfurt: Lembeck. ISBN 978-3-87476-316-5.
• Colin Podmore (1998). The Moravian Church in England, 1728–1760. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-820725-2. (based on the author's D.Phil. thesis)
• Colin Podmore, ed. (1998). Community, Unity, Communion: Essays in Honour of Mary Tanner. London: Church House Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7151-5756-5.
• Colin Podmore (2005). Aspects of Anglican Identity. London: Church House Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7151-4074-1.
• Roger Greenacre (2013). Colin Podmore (ed.). Maiden, Mother and Queen: Mary in the Anglican Tradition. Norwich, England: Hymns Ancient and Modern. ISBN 978-1-84825-278-3.
• Roger Greenacre (2014). Colin Podmore (ed.). Part of the One Church? The Ordination of Women and Anglican identity. Norwich, England: Canterbury Press. ISBN 978-1-84825-627-9.
• Colin Podmore, ed. (2015). Fathers in God? Resources for Reflection on Women in the Episcopate. Norwich, England: Canterbury Press. ISBN 978-1-84825-826-6.

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