Paul Wright (Archdeacon of Bromley & Bexley)
Paul Wright is a British Anglican priest who has been the Archdeacon of Bromley & Bexley since 2003.Education and family
Paul Wright was born the son of Cecil Edwin John Wright and Bessie Wright, and read theology at King's College London. That same year, he started training for ministry at Ripon College Cuddesdon; he later graduated Master of Theology from Heythrop College, London in 1990, and Doctor of Ministry from the University of Wales, Lampeter in 2009. He married Jill Rayner in 1981 and they have three children; Wright became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2016.Ministry
He was made a deacon at Petertide 1979 and ordained a priest the Petertide next by David Say, Bishop of Rochester, at Rochester Cathedral. He served curacies at St George's Church, Beckenham and in Richmond, where he was chaplain of Christ's School.
Wright became Vicar of Gillingham, Kent in 1985, until his move to Crayford in 1990, where he served as Rector until 1999: while there, he was additionally Rural Dean of Erith and an honorary canon of Rochester Cathedral since 1998. He next served as Vicar of Sidcup until his collation in December 2003 as Archdeacon of Bromley & Bexley. In that role, he has also additionally been Bishop's Adviser for Inter-Faith Concerns, priest-in-charge of Bromley Common and of St Augustine, Slade Green.
