James Edgar Atwell (3 June 1946 – 12 December 2020) was an English priest who was Dean of Winchester.Anglican communion
Biography James Edgar Atwell was born on 2 June 1946.Who's Who 2012 – ATWELL, James Edgar He was educated at Dauntsey's and Exeter College, Oxford. He went to theological college at Cuddesdon and was ordained in 1971. He began his ordained ministry with a curacy at St John the Evangelist, East DulwichCrockford's Clerical Directory2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing after which he was curate at Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge and Chaplain at Jesus College, Cambridge. He has a Master of Arts (MA Oxon) and a Bachelor of Divinity (BD).
From Cambridge he became Vicar of St Lawrence, TowcesterChurch web siteHistoric record of Clergy and then Provost of St Edmundsbury CathedralOfficial notification – Winchester before becoming (automatically, due to the Cathedrals Measure) Dean of St Edmundsbury on 19 November 2000. Having received Letters Patent from Elizabeth II,London Gazette he was installed in Winchester Cathedral at a service on Lady Day, 25 March 2006.Basingstoke Gazette
On 12 February 2016, it was announced that Atwell was to retire as Dean of WinchesterWinchester Cathedral — Dean James' retirement (Accessed 20 February 2016) effective 14 July.Winchester Cathedral — Farewell to Dean James and Lorna (Accessed 17 June 2016)
Atwell died on 12 December 2020, at the age of 74.
Bibliography Sources of the Old Testament: A Guide to the Religious Thought of the Hebrew Bible (Understanding the Bible & Its World), T. & T. Clark Ltd, 1 April 2004.
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