John Gladwin

Gladwin was born on 30 May 1942 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England. He was educated at Hertford Grammar School, an all-boys school in Hertford, Hertfordshire. He studied theology and history at Churchill College, Cambridge (BA 1965, MA 1968). He undertook further theological study and training for ordination at Cranmer Hall, Durham (Diploma in Theology 1969). ==Ordained ministry==

Gladwin was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1967 and as a priest in 1968. From 1967 to 1971, he served his curacy at St John the Baptist Parish Church, Kirkheaton in the Diocese of Wakefield. He was secretary of the General Synod's Board for Social Responsibility from 1982 to 1988. He was ordained a bishop in 1994, and served as Bishop of Guildford from 1994 to 2004 when he was appointed to be Bishop of Chelmsford. He was a member of the House of Lords from 1999 until his retirement in 2009. As the Bishop of Chelmsford, he sought to embrace the vast diversity of the second largest diocese in the Church of England. In late 2008 he announced that he would retire on 31 August 2009. Since 2010, he has held permission to officiate in the Diocese of St Albans. By 13 February, a serving bishop (Alan Wilson, Bishop of Buckingham) and nine further retired bishops had added their signatures; on 15 February, the report was rejected by synod. ==Charity work==

From 1998 to 2008, he was chairman of the board of Christian Aid. On his retirement as bishop, he became the Chairman of Citizens Advice, serving in that role from 2009 to 2015. ==Personal life==

He married Lydia Elizabeth Adam, daughter of the late William Adam and the late Ivy Amelia Adam in 1981. They married in Christchurch, Fulwood in the Diocese of Sheffield. The preacher was Brandon Jackson, Provost of Bradford. Lydia died in August 2018. ==Publications==

• ''God's People in God's World'', 1979 • The Good of the People, 1988 • Love and Liberty, 1997 ==References==