Kevin Roberts (priest)

Kevin Roberts
Personal life
BornKevin Thomas Roberts
(1955-10-11) 11 October 1955
NationalityBritish
Alma materQueens' College, Cambridge
Religious life
ReligionChristianity
DenominationAnglican
Senior posting
PostArchdeacon of Carlisle (2006–2016)
Acting Archdeacon of Wells (2016–2017)

Kevin Thomas Roberts[1] was the Archdeacon of Carlisle[2] from 2009[3] until 2016. He was the acting Archdeacon of Wells from 2016 until 2017[4], and was the Director of ReSource, a British Christian charity supporting local churches in renewal, from 2016 until his retirement in 2021.[5].

Born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea on 11 October 1955, he was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge and ordained in 1984.[6] Following curacies at Beverley Minster and St John the Evangelist Church, Woodley,[7] he was Vicar of Holy Trinity, Meole Brace from 1991 to 2009.

He is a trustee of Simeon's Trustees[8][9], a trust established in the nineteenth century by Charles Simeon to purchase advowsons for Anglican ministers aligned with the Evangelical Anglicanism.

References

  1. ^ Photo Archived 2012-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "CDREX". Archived from the original on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  3. ^ Christian Today
  4. ^ Diocese of Bath & Wells — Appointment: Kevin Roberts Archived 9 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine (Accessed 7 October 2016)
  5. ^ "ReSource — The Ven Kevin Roberts".
  6. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory on line edition accessed 3 December 2012 17:59
  7. ^ ‘ROBERTS, Kevin Thomas’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 3 Dec 2012
  8. ^ "Simeon's Trustees".
  9. ^ "Simeon's Trustees — Officers". beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. Companies House. Retrieved 24 August 2020.