Peter Robert Forster (born 16 March 1950) is a British Anglican clergyman and the current Bishop of Chester.
Born in Solihull, the son of Thomas and Edna (née Russell) Forster was educated at the town's Tudor Grange Grammar School for Boys, and Merton College, Oxford, where he received a Master of Arts in chemistry in 1973. At the Edinburgh University, Forster graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity in theology in 1977 and became a Doctor of Philos...
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Peter Robert Forster (born 16 March 1950) is a British Anglican clergyman and the current Bishop of Chester.
Born in Solihull, the son of Thomas and Edna (née Russell) Forster was educated at the town's Tudor Grange Grammar School for Boys, and Merton College, Oxford, where he received a Master of Arts in chemistry in 1973. At the Edinburgh University, Forster graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity in theology in 1977 and became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1985.
From 1980 to 1982, Forster was assistant curate of the Mossley Hill Parish Church in Liverpool. He was senior tutor at St John's College, Durham between 1983 and 1991, and became vicar of Beverley Minster in the following. In 1996, he was appointed 40th Bishop of Chester and became a Lord Spiritual at the House of Lords in 2001.
Forster has been married to Elisabeth Anne Forster (née Stevenson) since 1978; they have two sons and two daughters.
In 2003, Forster raised controversy when he was investigated by police for an alleged ...
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