Rupert Hoare
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Rupert Hoare (born 1940) is a former Dean of Liverpool and Anglican Bishop of Dudley.
He was born in Sussex and attended the Dragon School in Oxford before attending Rugby School. Upon completing his secondary education, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge where he read Theology.
He graduated in 1961 with a First Class Honours and spend the following year in Berlin on a scholarship from Coventry Cathedral. In 1963, he returned to Cambridge, this time attending Westcott House Theological College. In 1964, he achieved another First Class Honours in Part III of the Cambridge Tripos and completed his PhD thesis on the relationship between theology and psychiatry in 1973.
He became a Deacon in 1964, and became a curate at St Mary Oldham in the Diocese of Manchester in 1965. In 1968, he took up a post at Queen's College, Birmingham where he lectured for 5 years. He also became an Honorary Canon Theologian at Coventry Cathedral, holding this post for 6 years. In 1972, he returned to Manchester as Rector of the Parish of the Resurrection.
In 1978, he returned to Birmingham as Canon Residentiary of Birmingham Cathedral, before being appointed Principal of Westcott House in 1981. He was Area Bishop of Dudley in the Diocese of Worcester between 1993 and 2000 before moving to become the fifth Dean of Liverpool in 1999. He retired as Dean of Liverpool in early 2007.
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- Mr Rupert Hoare (1940-1965)
- The Revd. Rupert Hoare (1965-1968)
- The Revd. Canon Rupert Hoare (1968-1973)
- The Revd. Canon Dr Rupert Hoare (1973-1993)
- The Rt. Revd. Dr Rupert Hoare (1993-)
Although Dr Hoare became Dean of Liverpool, which would usually carry with it the title of Very Revd., he was already a Bishop and thus held the higher title of Rt. Revd. Therefore, he was known as the Rt. Revd. Dr Rupert Hoare, Dean of Liverpool; not the Very Revd. Dr Rupert Hoare.
