Having trained as a teacher at Redland College, Bristol, Peter Price spent six years teaching before studying for the ministry at Oak Hill College. His first parish base was in the Portsmouth Diocese, and included a community chaplain role on an overspill housing estate.
For two years he was Chaplain of the Scargill Community in Yorkshire before being appointed Vicar of Addiscombe, Croydon, in 1980. After eight years in that substantial parish, he became Chancellor of Southwark Cathedral and Chairman of the Diocesan Board of Mission.
In 1992 he was appointed General Secretary of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (USPG), visiting more than 20 countries in that work. He became Area Bishop of Kingston in the Diocese of Southwark in 1997.
He has a particular interest in small Christian communities and contextual biblical reflection. He is active in issues of reconciliation, and has made contributions to peacemaking in Northern Ireland, Iraq, and in Zimbabwe. He was awarded the Coventry Cross of Nail for this work in 1999. He has been a core team member of New Way of Being Church.
Publications.
- ‘Changing Communities – Church from the Grassroots’ (with Jeanne Hinton) published by Churches Together in Britain and Ireland
- Among his other books are ‘Undersong’, ‘Playing the Blue Note’ and ‘Seeds of the Word’ – all published by DLT.
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