Nick Holtam

Nicholas Roderick "Nick" Holtam ( born August 8, 1954 in London ) is the reigning since 2011 Bishop of Salisbury of the Church of England.

Life

Holtam grew up in the London district of Edmonton and studied at Durham University, Geography. After his first degree, he studied theology at King's College London and at a seminar at the University of Cambridge. In 1979 he was ordained a deacon and priest in 1980, after which he held several positions as a curate, tutor and Vicar in the London area. From 1995 to 2011 was Holtam vicar of the church of St. Martin-in -the-Fields. In 2005 he received an honorary doctorate from Durham University and was appointed a Fellow of King's College London.

On April 12, 2011, the approval of his nomination was announced as Bishop of Salisbury by the British royal family, which he at St Paul 's Cathedral consecrated bishop by the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams received on 22 July 2011 and on 15 October in Salisbury as Bishop was used.

In February 2012 Holtam publicly supported same-sex marriage as the first bishop of the Church of England. In June 2013 he answered in this context, a request from Waheed Alli and pointed to the diversity of views within the Church of England on this subject.

Holtam is born with Helen Harris, a math teacher, married. The couple has four grown children.