Nicholas Alan Chamberlain MA PhD (b1963)
Dr Nicholas Alan Chamberlain MA PhD, Vicar of St George and St Hilda, Jesmond, in the diocese of Newcastle, was appointed 10th suffragan Bishop of Grantham in 2016.
He was born in Staines and educated at Christleton High School.
He then studied English and American Literature at St Chad’s College, Durham. He trained for ordination at Edinburgh Theological College, graduating with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1988.
He subsequently returned to St Chad’s College to complete a PhD in American literature, then trained for the ministry at Edinburgh Theological College.
He served his title at St Mary’s, Cockerton, in the diocese of Durham from 1991 and was ordained priest in 1992.
He went on to serve as curate at St Clare’s, Newton Aycliffe in 1994 before becoming Team Vicar there in 1995, continuing to serve in this role when it became the Great Aycliffe Team Ministry.
In 1998 he took up the post of Officer for Continuing Ministerial Education and Post Ordination Training in the Diocese of Durham as well as serving as Priest in Charge of St Barnabas, Burnmoor.
He had been vicar of St George and St Hilda, Newcastle upon Tyne, in the diocese of Newcastle since 2006.
In 2016 he became the first bishop in the Church of England to come out as gay , following threats of an outing from an unnamed Sunday newspaper.
His interests include music, reading, running and cycling.
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