Pete Spiers | |
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Archdeacon of Knowsley and Sefton | |
Church | Church of England |
Diocese | Diocese of Liverpool |
In office | 2015 to present |
Orders | |
Ordination | 1986 (deacon) 1987 (priest) |
Personal details | |
Born | Peter Hendry Spiers 13 August 1961 |
Denomination | Anglicanism |
Alma mater | St John's College, Durham Ridley Hall, Cambridge |
Peter Hendry Spiers[1] (born 13 August 1961) is a British Anglican priest. Since 2015, he has been Archdeacon of Knowsley and Sefton in the Diocese of Liverpool.[2]
Spiers was born on 13 August 1961 in Liverpool, England.[3] He was educated at Liverpool College, then an independent school.[3] He studied at Durham University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1982.[2] While studying at Durham, he was elected Senior Man of St John's College in 1982.[4] From 1983 to 1986, he trained for ordination at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, an evangelical theological college.[2] During this time, he completed a Certificate of Theology (CertTh).[3]
Spiers was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1986 and as a priest in 1987.[2] Following a curacy at St Luke, West Derby, he was Team Vicar of Everton from 1990 to 1995, and Vicar of St Georges Everton from 1995 to 2005.[5] He was at St Luke, Crosby from 2005 to 2015; and Area Dean of Sefton, 2008 to 2015.[6] In 2006, he was made an honorary canon of Liverpool Cathedral.[2] In 2015, he was appointed Archdeacon of Knowsley and Sefton;[3] a newly created post in the Diocese of Liverpool.[7] He was collated as archdeacon in November 2015 during a service at Liverpool Cathedral.[7]
Spiers is an evangelical Anglican. He welcomes the Church of England's introduction of blessings for same-sex partnerships.[8]
Since 2000, he has been an elected member of the General Synod of the Church of England.[9][10] He also served on the Crown Nominations Commission between 2007 and 2012.[3]
Spiers was born with phocomelia as a consequence of the drug thalidomide, although he does not think of himself as disabled.[11]
He is married to Annie and they have four children.[3]