Peter Fox (bishop)
Peter John Fox is a vicar in the Church of England and former Anglican bishop in Papua New Guinea.
Fox attended King's College London, becoming an Associate in 1974 and spending his fourth and final year of ministerial training at St Augustine's College, Canterbury. He was then ordained a deacon at Petertide 1975 by Maurice Wood, Bishop of Norwich, at Norwich Cathedral and a priest the following Petertide by Aubrey Aitken, Bishop of Lynn, at the same cathedral. He served his title at Wymondham, Norfolk until 1979, when he went as a missionary priest to Papua New Guinea, where he served as Rector of Gerehu from 1980 and additionally as Diocesan Secretary for the Diocese of Port Moresby from 1984.
He returned to the UK in 1985, taking a group of rural Norfolk parishes: East and West Rudham, Syderstone, Bagthorpe, Barmer, Tatterford, Tattersett and Houghton ; until 1989. He then moved to Devon and became Team Rector of Lynton, Barbrook, Countisbury, Lynmouth, Brendon, Martinhoe and Parracombe until 1995, serving additionally as Rural Dean of Shirwell from 1992. From Devon he moved to Oxfordshire, where he was Priest-in-Charge at Harpsden-cum-Bolney, serving concurrently as General Secretary of the Melanesian Mission. He was elected to become Bishop of Port Moresby, in the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea, in September 2001.
Fox was consecrated and installed on 24 February 2002; he served until 2006. That year, he returned to Britain, becoming Priest-in-Charge of the Lakenham Group of churches and an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Norwich.
2018 honorary assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Leicester
