Falklands : New Rector for Christ Church Cathedral
Submitted by Falkland Islands News Network (Juanita Brock) 28.05.2007 (Article Archived on 11.06.2007)
A new Rector for Christ Church Cathedral has been appointed in the UK
The Council of Christ Church Cathedral is pleased to announce the appointment of the new Rector, the Revd Dr Richard Hines.
Richard Hines (58) is an experienced Parish Priest, currently Rector of the Coastal Group of Parishes in the Diocese of Norwich. Richard has worked in this rural benefice on the North-East coast of Norfolk for the past ten years, leading a team of clergy, Readers and Churchwardens in mission and pastoral ministry in seven parishes and nine churches.
Richard studied at the University of London and in 1976 was awarded a PhD in Plant Pathology. Shortly afterwards, as a member of the South American Mission Society, he went to work as an agriculturalist in the remote Chaco of North Argentina, where he lived with the indigenous Wichi people of that region. The four years he and his wife, Jennifer, worked in South America helped confirm Richard’s calling to ordained ministry and in 1982 he entered ordination training.
Richard was ordained to the priesthood in 1985 and, after completing his curacy in 1987, then worked as Chaplain and Lecturer at Oak Hill Theological College in London, later becoming Vice-Principal of the North Thames Ministerial Training Course. In 1997 he and Jen moved back to his native Norfolk and to his present post.
Richard and Jen are widely travelled. Their outdoor leisure pursuits include walking, gardening and bird-watching. Jen also enjoys reading, crosswords and Sudoku; while Richard declares an interest in astronomy and cosmology, and 20th century classical composers.
It is expected that Richard and Jen will arrive to take up residence in the Deanery during the final quarter of 2007.
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