Chaplain-General of Prisons
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The Chaplain-General of Prisons is the head of the Church of England
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s. He is also an ex officio member of the House of Clergy of the General Synod
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Church of England
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...
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Chaplain
Traditionally, a chaplain is a minister in a specialized setting such as a priest, pastor, rabbi, or imam or lay representative of a religion attached to a secular institution such as a hospital, prison, military unit, police department, university, or private chapel...
s to prison
Her Majesty's Prison Service
Her Majesty's Prison Service is a part of the National Offender Management Service of the Government of the United Kingdom tasked with managing most of the prisons within England and Wales...
s. He is also an ex officio member of the House of Clergy of the General Synod
General Synod of the Church of England
The General Synod is the deliberative and legislative body of the Church of England. The synod was instituted in 1970, replacing the Church Assembly, and is the culmination of a process of rediscovering self-government for the Church of England that had started in the 1850s.- Church Assembly: 1919...
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List
- Percy Ashford - 1981-1985 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-the-ven-percy-ashford-1182404.html?cmp=ilc-n
- William Noblett - ? to present