Alan Francis AbernethyDiocesan web site (born 12 April 1957)Who's Who2008: London, A & C Black is an Irish Anglican bishop, and former Bishop of Connor.Anglican Communion
Educated at Grosvenor High School, Belfast, Queen's University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin, and ordained in 1981,Crockfords, (London, Church House 1995) he began his ministry as Assistant Curate at St Elizabeth's, Dundonald.Church web site
After a similar post at Lecale he was Officiating Chaplain at RAF Bishopscourt. He was Rector at St John's, Helen's Bay, from 1987 to 1990flickr and then at St Columbanus, Ballyholme,Church history until his appointment to the episcopate in 2007.
In 2010 he faced calls that he resign in connection with the controversy relating to the coming to an end of the composer Philip Stopford's tenure as Director of Music at St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast.
He retired in December 2019.
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