Bishop Jonathan has been the Bishop of Ebbsfleet and a Provincial Episcopal Visitor since 2013, ministering principally to Catholic tradition parishes and clergy who for whom, under the House of Bishops Declaration on the ministry of Bishop and Priests 2014, he serves as ‘the bishop asked to provide oversight’. He holds this role in 12 other dioceses in west and south of England.
Originally from Yorkshire, he trained first as a classical musician, and after a time as a publisher with Macmillan and Oxford UP, trained for the sacred ministry at Wycliffe Hall Oxford. He served a curacy in Oxford diocese before joining the clergy team at Westminster Abbey as a minor canon responsible for the liturgy and pastoral care. From the most-visited church in the Communion he moved to the most widely dispersed diocese (as chaplain and research assistant to successive Bishops in Europe), and then to serve in an even wider context as chaplain and ecumenical secretary to Archbishop Rowan Williams.
Beyond his service of the ‘Ebbsfleet parishes’, the great majority of which are affiliated to the Society of St Wilfrid and Hilda, he maintains his international ecumenical commitments especially with Catholic and Orthodox communities, and is the Archbishop’s lead bishop for relations with the Eastern Orthodox Churches. He has recently co-founded ICoHS: the International Community of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem).
Office: 0118 948 1038
Email: office@ebbsfleet.org.uk
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