Bishop of Norwich

The Rt Revd Graham James

Bishop of Norwich

Bishop Graham hails from Cornwall where many members of his family worked in the tin mining industry. He read history at the University of Lancaster before training for the ordained ministry at Cuddesdon College in Oxford.

He was ordained in Peterborough in 1975 and later worked in Welwyn Garden City as a team vicar. He then moved to Church House, Westminster, where he had responsibility for overseeing the selection procedures for candidates for ordination in the Church of England. In 1987 he was appointed as Chaplain to the Most Reverend Robert Runcie, the Archbishop of Canterbury at that time.

Bishop Graham was consecrated Bishop of St Germans in 1993, returning to his native Cornwall. He was enthroned as the 71st Bishop of Norwich on 29th January 2000.

He chairs both the BBC's Standing Conference on Religion and Belief and the Church of England's Ministry Division.

Related external links:

• Previous Bishop's of Norwich (from Wikipedia)
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_of_Norwich#List_of_bishops_of_Norwich
• Biography (from Parliament)
  http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/graham-james/26828
• Biography (from the C of E)
  http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/bishopsinlords/bishopnor/