Richard Chartres

Richard John Carew Chartres KCVO, PC ( born July 11, 1947 in Ware, Hertfordshire ) is a British bishop. He is the 132nd Bishop of London, in November 1995 it was officially inaugurated. He was previously Auxiliary Bishop of Stepney (1992 to 1995) in the Diocese of London and Professor at Gresham College (1987 to 1992). He is formally referred to as the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dr Richard Chartres. He is married to Caroline Chartres, a publishing editor and Programme Head. Together they have four children.

Biography

Chartres visited the Richard Hale School and Trinity College, where he graduated with a Master of Arts (MA). He attended lectures in history, before studying theology at Ripon College Cuddesdon and at Lincoln Theological College.

He was ordained a priest in 1974. During the 1970s he was chaplain to Robert Runcie, the then Bishop of St Albans and later Archbishop of Canterbury and was awarded a Lambeth Degree, one conferred by the Archbishop of Canterbury undergraduate degree, a Bachelor of Divinity.

Chartres were honorary doctorate from St. Mary's University College, Twickenham, Brunel University, and awarded the City and Metropolitan Universities. In the Queen's Birthday Honours 2009 he was appointed Knight Commander ( KCVO ). He was elected a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL ).

Chartres has been married since 1982. He has four children.

Offices

1995 Chartres Prelate of the Order of the British Empire and Dean of the Chapel Royal.

He is an honorary member ( Honorary Bencher ) of the Middle Temple, as Liveryman member of the Merchant Taylor 's Company, of the estates representation of London merchants, and as Honorary Freeman of the Weavers' Company. Richard Chartres is also a member of the Privy Council. In 1997 he was chaplain of the Venerable Order of Saint John.

He was one of the executors of Diana, Princess of Wales, and gave a speech at her memorial service in 2007. He also led the celebration of Confirmation of Prince William.

On September 12, 2009 Chartres presided at the wedding of Lord Frederick Windsor to actress Sophie Winkleman at the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace.

He is one of the patron of Prospex, a charitable institution which young people looked after in North London, and patron and a Fellow of the Burgon Society for the History and stylistics of the academic robes of office (Academic Dress).

Chartres is also patron of the Georgian Group. He is the founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of St Ethelburga Centre for Reconciliation and Peace. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Co-exist and belongs to the advisory board of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation on.

In October 2005 Chartres called together with Marianne Suhr, who had already initiated the restoration of St. Giles in the Fields in London, a new project for the preservation of the old historic churches of London to life.

Chartres is responsible for relations with the Church of England and the Orthodox Churches. Therefore, he represented the church at the funeral of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II and the inauguration of his successor, Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow.

Commitment to environmental protection

Since its launch in 2006, Chartres led the campaign Shrinking the Footprint the Church of England, which aims by 2050 to reduce the CO2 emissions from the Church of England by 60 %.

At the start of the campaign and in the subsequent period Chartres criticized the pollution of environment by leisure travel by plane. Michael O'Leary, CEO of Ryanair, responded by saying: " The Bishop of London has empty churches: if no one fly on holiday, his faithful would perhaps anfinden back and listen to his sermons. God bless the Bishop! "

After criticism that he took advantage of flights for his Diozösenarbeit itself, also a car with chauffeur for his business trips have, and thus contrary to the ideals of his campaign to Chartres undertook to take a year long flights to complete. For private travel Chartres uses an Oyster card.

In January 2006, Chartres has been criticized in the media, including the BBC for spending the Easter festival on a cruise ship, where he lectured in theology rather than to lead the service in St Paul's Cathedral, although Chartres for two months by his ecclesiastical and academic obligations was optional.

In October 2008, he led the Independent on Sunday as one of the 100 environmentalists in the UK in its 'Green List' ( he came up with number 75 ).

Gresham lectures

Chartres wrote a book, A Brief History of Gresham College 1597-1997. This was based on a three-part series of lectures which he delivered in May 1992, when he was professor of theology at Gresham College in London. During the first presentation of the original series of lectures he called the college " a magical island like Atlantis " disappeared in the ocean and resurfaced. This was an allusion to the group "Invisible College " at Oxford, from which emerged the Royal Society in London, as well Francis Bacon's New Atlantis. In the second lecture, he distanced himself from any occult comments.

Other Gresham lectures of Chartres included prayer, which he strongly demarcated by magic, in the fall of 1991, the grave Shroud of Turin in November 1988 and the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, where he surrendered and background knowledge of the Gresham Jerusalem Project. He also gave a personal account of his stay in December 1989 in an old monastery in Egypt, where he took walks with a Christian religious leaders, the great pattern painted in desert sand as he abstruse and tried to explain contradictory points of theology.

Title and styling

• Richard Chartres ( 1947-73 )
• The Revd Richard Chartres ( 1973-86 )
• The Revd Professor Richard Chartres ( 1986-92 )
• The Rt Revd Richard Chartres ( 1992-95 )
• The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Richard Chartres ( 1995-98 )
• The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dr Richard Chartres (1998-2009)
• The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dr Richard Chartres KCVO (2009 -)