Pete Spiers
Peter Hendry "Pete" Spiers has been Archdeacon of Knowsley and Sefton since 2015.
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. He was ordained in 1987. Following a curacy at St Luke, West Derby he was Team Vicar of Everton from 1990 to 1995. He was at St Luke, Crosby from 2005 to 2015; and Area Dean of Sefton, 2008 to 2015.
Spiers was born with phocomelia as a consequence of the drug thalidomide, although he does not think of himself as disabled.
