Pete Spiers

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Peter Hendry Spiers[1] (b Liverpool, 13 August 1961) has been Archdeacon of Knowsley and Sefton since 2015.[2]

Spiers was educated at Liverpool College, Durham University and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. While studying at Durham he was elected Senior Man of St John's College in 1982.[3] He was ordained in 1987. Following a curacy at St Luke, West Derby he was Team Vicar of Everton from 1990 to 1995.[4] He was at St Luke, Crosby from 2005 to 2015; and Area Dean of Sefton, 2008 to 2015.[5]

Spiers was born with phocomelia as a consequence of the drug thalidomide, although he does not think of himself as disabled.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ Companies House
  2. ^ "Peter Hendry Spiers". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  3. ^ "Election Results". Palatinate (354): 2. 11 March 1982. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  4. ^ ‘SPIERS, Ven. Peter Hendry’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016 ; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 22 Oct 2017
  5. ^ Liverpool Anglican
  6. ^ Harden, Rachel (6 February 2008). "Interview: Pete Spiers, member of the General Synod's House of Clergy". Church Times. Retrieved 6 September 2019.


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