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Contributors
Paul Avis After 23 years in parish ministry in the Diocese of Exeter, Church of England, Paul served as the General Secretary of the Church of England’s Council for Christian Unity 1998–2011 and as Theological Consultant to the Anglican Com- munion Office 2011–12. He was a Chaplain to HM Queen Elizabeth ii, 2008–17, and was consecutively Prebendary, Sub-Dean and Canon Theologian of Exeter Cathedral. He has served on the General Synod, the Doctrine Commission, and the Faith and Order Advisory Group. He is an honorary research fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Exeter, and honorary professor in the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Durham. He is a member of the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order. Dr Avis is the editor-in-chief of Ecclesiology and the editor of the series Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History, published by Brill. He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Ecclesiology (2018) and joint editor (with Benjamin Guyer) of The Lambeth Conference: Theology, History, Polity and Purpose (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017). His most recent books are In Search of Authority: Anglican Theological Method from the Reformation to the Enlighten- ment (2014); Becoming a Bishop: A Handbook of Episcopal Ministry (2015); and The Vocation of Anglicanism (2016), all published by Bloomsbury T&T Clark.
Gert Breed is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Theology, North West University, North West Province, South Africa; Professor in Practical Theology; a minister in the Reformed Churches in South Africa; Director of the School of ministers train- ing in the Faculty of Theology, nwu and Rector of the Theological School of the Reformed Churches in South Africa.
Elaine Graham is Grosvenor Research Professor of Practical Theology at the University of Chester, a position she has held since 2009. In March 2014, she was installed as Canon Theologian at Chester Cathedral. She is the author of several books, including Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Public Theology in a Post-Secular Age (scm, 2013) and Apologetics without Apology: Speaking of God in a world troubled by religion (Cascade, 2017); with Heather Walton and Frances Ward,
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Theological Reflection: Methods (scm, 2005); with Zoe Bennett, Stephen Patti- son and Heather Walton, Invitation to Practical Theology Research (Routledge, 2018).
Christopher Hill is currently President of the Conference of European Churches. He was award- ed a Lambeth Doctor of Divinity by the Archbishop of Canterbury in January 2014, and in November 2014 was created a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (kcvo) by HM Queen Elizabeth ii. Following five years in parish ministry he was appointed Assistant Chaplain for the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Council for Foreign Relations (which became the Ecumenical Af- fairs department in 1981) at Lambeth Palace in 1974. He was the Archbishop’s Secretary for Ecumenical Affairs from 1982–89. He served under Archbishops Michael Ramsey, Donald Coggan and Robert Runcie. In 1989 he was appointed Residentiary Canon and Precentor of St Paul’s Cathedral, London. In 1996 was consecrated Bishop of Stafford (an Area Bishop within the Diocese of Lichfield). In 2004 he became Diocesan Bishop of Guildford, retiring in 2013. He has served as Chairman, Secretary or member of the following Commissions: Anglican/Roman Catholic International Commission i, ii and iii; Anglican- Lutheran European Commission; Church of England – German Churches Con- versations (Meissen Agreement); Church of England – Nordic Baltic Churches Conversations (Porvoo Agreement); Church of England – French Lutheran and Reformed Conversations (Reuilly Agreement); Meissen Theological Confer- ence; Church of England Council for Christian Unity; Faith and Order Advi- sory Group; Legal Advisory Commission; House of Bishops’ Theological Group; Church of England Bishops’ Europe Group; House of Bishops Working Party on Women in the Episcopate; Women Bishops Working Group; Liturgical Com- mission; Clergy Discipline Commission. He was Chairman of the Ecclesiastical Law Society from 2002–2015. He was a member of the House of Lords from 2009 until his retirement, and was the Bishops’ spokesman on European af- fairs. He was Clerk of the Closet to HM Queen Elizabeth ii 2005–2014. Chris- topher is co-editor of Anglicans and Roman Catholics: the Search for Unity and The Documents in the Debate. A Retrospect on the Papal Decision on Anglican Orders 1896.
Gerard Mannion holds the Amaturo Chair in Catholic Studies at Georgetown University, usa, where he is also a Fellow of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. An Irish citizen, he was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and has held visiting professorships at Tübingen (Germany), the
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