The Queen has approved the appointment of the Reverend James Welford Woodward BD, AKC, STh, MPhil, PhD, FRSA Master of The Foundation of Lady Katherine Leveson and Vicar of Temple Balsall, Birmingham diocese, to the Residentiary Canonry of Saint George’s Chapel, Windsor, vacant following the resignation of the Reverend Canon Laurence Francois Pascal Gunner MA on 13 April 2006.
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James Woodward was born into a Durham coal-mining family on 23rd February 1961. He was educated at Spennymoor Grammar School, and then at King’s College London, where he read Theology. He trained for Ministry at Westcott House, Cambridge. Ordained in 1985, he returned to County Durham to serve his Curacy in Consett, and was then appointed as Chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford. From 1990 until 1996 he was Senior Chaplain at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. Subsequently he was priest in charge of two rural parishes in Warwickshire, Middleton with Wishaw, combining this role with doctoral research and serving as the Bishop of Birmingham’s Adviser for Health & Social Care. Since 1998 he has been Master of the Foundation of Lady Katherine Leveson and Vicar of St Marys Church, Temple Balsall. He established the Leveson Centre for the Study of Ageing, Spirituality and Social Policy in 2001.
Dr Woodward has published widely in the area of Pastoral and Practical Theology. His most recent book is Valuing Age: Pastoral Ministry with Older People, published by SPCK. He serves as West Midlands County Chaplain for St John Ambulance.
James Woodward’s recreations include political biography, walking, modern British painting, cooking and music.
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