Richard Jackson (bishop)


Richard Charles Jackson is a British Anglican bishop. He is the current Bishop of Hereford in the Church of England and a former Bishop suffragan of Lewes.

Early life and education

Jackson was born on 22 January 1961. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983. He studied at the Cranfield Institute of Technology, completing a Master of Science degree in 1985. In 1992, he matriculated into Trinity College, Bristol, an Evangelical Anglican theological college: he spent the next two years studying theology and training for ordained ministry.

Ordained ministry

Jackson was ordained into the Church of England: made a deacon at Petertide 1994, by Eric Kemp, Bishop of Chichester, at Chichester Cathedral; and ordained a priest the Petertide following, by Lindsay Urwin, Bishop of Horsham, at St Mary's, Horsham. After a curacy in Lindfield he was Vicar of Rudgwick from 1998 until 2009 when he became the Diocese of Chichester's Advisor for Mission and Renewal.

Episcopal ministry

Jackson was consecrated as a bishop on 14 May 2014 at Westminster Abbey by Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury. Since then, he has served as Bishop of Lewes, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Chichester. It was announced on 3 September 2019 that Jackson was to become the next Bishop of Hereford; he was elected to that See on 6 December 2019 and his election confirmed 7 January 2020.

Views

Jackson is evangelical and charismatic in churchmanship.