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Alan Chesters was born on 26 August, 1937, is an A 20th-century church of England bishops. Discover Alan Chesters's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?
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Alan Chesters Height, Weight & Measurements
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Alan Chesters Net Worth
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Timeline
Alan David Chesters CBE (born 26 August 1937) was the Bishop of Blackburn from 1989 to 2003.
Chesters is the son of Herbert and Catherine Chesters, of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
He was educated at Elland Grammar School, St Chad's College, Durham (Bachelor of Arts, 1959), St Catherine's Society, Oxford (Bachelor of Arts, 1961), Oxford Master of Arts (1965) and St Stephen's House, Oxford (1959–1962).
He was ordained deacon in 1962, priest in 1963 and bishop in 1989.
Chesters served as assistant curate of St Anne's Wandsworth from 1962 to 1965.
He then became chaplain of Tiffin School (1966–72), a post that he soon combined with that of honorary assistant curate of St Richard's Ham (1967–72).
Returning to the north of England, where he was to spend the rest of his ministry, he became director of education for the Diocese of Durham and rector of Brancepeth (1972–85).
He was an honorary canon of Durham Cathedral from 1975 until 1984.
He was first elected to the General Synod in 1975.
His involvement in Anglican education continued as he became a member of the board of governors of his old college at Durham, St Chad's (1980–89), and chairman of the board of governors of St Martin's College (1991–2003).
Chesters was a Church Commissioner from 1982 until 1998.
In 1985, he was appointed Archdeacon of Halifax in the Diocese of Wakefield.
He was a member of its standing committee from 1985 to 1989 and 1990 to 1995, and served as vice chairman (1984–90), and later chairman, of the Board of Education.
and Chairman of the Schools Committee.
In 1989, the Queen appointed him Bishop of Blackburn on the advice of the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.
He took his seat in the House of Lords in 1995.
In October 2000, Chesters officially opened an extension at a school in Oswaldtwistle.
He retired in 2003, and became an honorary assistant bishop in the dioceses of Chester and Gibraltar in Europe.
In 2003, he was appointed to St Martin's College's first honorary fellowship.
He has also been chairman of the Higher Education Funding Council for England Advisory Committee on Church Colleges and president of the Woodard Corporation.
Chesters was a member of the Countryside Commission, and chairman of the North West Rural Affairs Forum.
In the New Year Honours List 2007, he was appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for services to the community in the North West.
He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship in 2007 from the University of Cumbria.
He moved from the diocese of Chester in 2010, ceasing to be an assistant bishop in Chester, remaining one in Europe and becoming one in Southwark (where he lives) and Chichester.
