Press release from Number 10
Dean of Durham: Andrew Tremlett
From: Prime Minister’s Office, 10 Downing Street
First published: 17 December 2015The Queen has approved the nomination of the Venerable Andrew Tremlett to be appointed Dean of Durham.
The Queen has approved the nomination of the Venerable Andrew Tremlett, MA, MPhil, PGCCE, Canon of Westminster, to be appointed to the Deanery of the Cathedral Church of Durham, on the resignation of the Very Reverend Michael Sadgrove, MA, on 31 December 2015.
Notes for editors
The Venerable Canon Andrew Tremlett (aged 51) was Curate at Torquay, St Matthias, St Mark and Holy Trinity in the diocese of Exeter, from 1989 to 1992. From 1992 to 1994 he was Chaplain to the Mission to Seafarers, and Assistant Chaplain in Rotterdam, in the diocese of Europe, and from 1994 to 1995 he was Chaplain. From 1995 to 1998 he was Team Vicar at Fareham Holy Trinity with St Columba in Portsmouth diocese. From 1998 to 2003 he was Chaplain to the Bishop of Portsmouth, and also a Parliamentary Research Assistant and Secretary to the Church of England’s Doctrine Commission. From 2003 to 2008 he was Vicar of Goring-by-Sea in Chichester diocese. From 2008 to 2010 he was Canon Residentiary and Keeper of the Fabric at Bristol Cathedral; from June 2009 to May 2010 he was Acting Dean of the Cathedral.
Since 2010 he has been Canon Residentiary and Rector of St Margaret’s Church at Westminster Abbey. He has been responsible for the Abbey’s relationships with Parliament, Whitehall and other faith communities, and in 2012 established the Westminster Abbey Institute which works with Public Service Institutions around Parliament Square to support ethics in public life. In June 2014 he became Archdeacon of Westminster and Sub-Dean of the Abbey. Since 2013 he has been Chairman of the Field Lane Foundation, a charitable housing association working particularly with adults with complex needs, and in 2015 became a Trustee of the Mission to Seafarers.
Andrew Tremlett is married to Ali, a teacher and trained painter and decorator. They have a daughter and 2 sons. Andrew Tremlett enjoys languages and has been studying Arabic at SOAS as well as on sabbatical in Jerusalem in 2014. He is a keen photographer and long-distant runner.
Durham diocesan website: Andrew Tremlett named as next Dean of Durham
My word, episcopal announcements may take for ever (Dunwich, for example) but there’s no messing about when it comes to this particular decanal announcement. Congratulations to Canon Tremlett on his appointment as Dean of Durham, surely, the best job in the Church of England at the world’s finest cathedral. This more than compensates for missing out on being Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons in addition to being a Canon of Westminster. I wish the new Dean well as he follows in the gliding footsteps of Michael Sadgrove.
Gosh, like Dunwich, another runner. This new generation in the C of E hierarchy have certainly speeded up, one almost longs for the old lepidopterist days.
re Father David’s comment about the retiring Dean of Durham’s ‘gliding footsteps’:
I have only known one other Anglican clergyperson to practise the long-lost art of ‘gliding’, and that was Father Michael, S.S.F., in procession at Mass, at the parish church of St.Paul’s, Symonds Street, Auckland, New Zealand; decades ago in the time of Father Prebble, of blessed memory.
The fact that his alb touched the ground during the procession, and that his gait was unearthly smooth, gave the uncanny impression that he had no feet and therefore appeared to ‘glide’. This is a very difficult art, rarely practised today.
Has anyone else noticed that these statements seem no longer to include, as a matter of course, the college or course at which the appointees trained for ministry?
We are also told that the incoming Bishop of Dunwich “trained at Oxford,” but not whether it was Wycliffe or St Stephen’s…
The new bishop of Dunwich trained at Cuddesdon.
*ahem* or Cuddesdon.
I wonder when Rose who has been an excellent Chaplain to the Speaker will be invited to be a Dean or a Bishop. She well deserves it.
Andrew Tremlett was snubbed by the Speaker and got the consolation prize of
“The man snubbed by Mr Bercow, 46-year-old Andrew Tremlett, currently a Canon at Bristol Cathedral, is to be made a Canon at Westminster Abbey as a ‘consolation prize’ by the Queen.
But he will have to make do with half the salary of the Commons Chaplain.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1289926/Speaker-snubs-Church-appoint-black-Vicar-Westminster.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/bs5nhaz
Rose Hudson-Wilkin got that position as chaplain to the commons.
Gary Paul Gilbert
Fr. Ron, with regard to gliding I remember many years ago in my teenage years going along to the Sunderland Empire to hear the Red Army Choir and to see the Georgian State Dancers and I can clearly remember the ladies of the latter beautifully gliding across the stage as though they were moving about on an ice rink. In procession Dean Sadgrove imitated their gliding movement to perfection. Yesterday at the conclusion of a very pleasant day off in London I attended Evening Prayer at St. Margaret’s, Westminster at which Canon Tremlett read the lessons and led the intercession.… Read more »
I’m put off by Jean Maylands notion of people who deserve to be Deans or Bishops. This is not the way that I think about so called senior appointments. I don’t happen to think Rose has the intellectual capacity that SHOULD be expected in such a job, but she would be one of a number in that position. Also – she seems to be doing an excellent job in the eyes of MPs and is surely doing greater things things for the Kingdom than the questionable effect most Deans and Bishops have?
Jean: I fear we may never know whether Rose gets ‘invited’ if she turns such things down.