Inderjit Bhogal

Bhogal was born into a Sikh family in Kenya. In 1964, when he was eleven, the family had to leave the country as refugees and finally settled in Dudley in the UK. He started to attend a church because there was no local Sikh temple and then became a member of the Methodist church. He attended the Blue Coat School, Dudley, took a first degree in Manchester and then took master's degree at Oxford and Sheffield. ==Ministry==

Once ordained, Inderjit was appointed to a circuit in Wolverhampton from 1979 until 1987, and then moved to Sheffield. He retired in 2018. Inderjit had started an interfaith group by the time he was 20 and has continued to promote interfaith peacemaking and good relationships. From 2011 - 2013 he was the chief executive officer of the Corrymeela Community in Northern Ireland, and at the time was the only person from a minority ethnic background in the island of Ireland to hold a CEO position. In 2020 he became honorary president of the Fellowship of Reconciliation England and Scotland from 2020 until 2023. Bhogal has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Oxford Brookes in 2001, Sheffield Hallam in 2002 and Sheffield in 2020. ==References==