CME Staff

The staff of the CME Department of the diocese work under the direction of the Canon Roger Matthews, Director for Mission and Ministry. Each of the Episcopal Areas has an Adviser (half time) and there is also a CME Administrator based in our Diocesan Offices who will try to help or redirect you on any CME matter. We also each have diocesan wide responsibility for the learning of curates and on going training of all clergy and Readers after that first phase of their ministry.

 

Our aim is to assist all clergy and Readers in the diocese to develop the habit of lifelong learning.

 

Bradwell CME Adviser & Year 1 - 4 Programme (Curates)

Rev'd Graham Hamborg

CME Adviser for the Bradwell Area, and responsibility for all curacy CME across the diocese.

Graham was ordained in 1977. After a curacy in Birmingham he was a team vicar in Slough, and then vicar of Twyford, Berkshire. As an incumbent in the Oxford Diocese he served on Diocesan Synod, Bishop’s Council, and the diocesan Board of Training, and was Area Dean of the Sonning Deanery. While in parish ministry he was also involved, at various times, in lay training through St John’s College, Nottingham Extension Studies, in Reader training in the Oxford Diocese, with ordinands on the Aston Training Scheme, and in CME as a study consultant to curates. He took up his current post in September 2004. He has a specialist interest in Old Testament studies, and is currently undertaking part-time PhD research on the book of Amos at Nottingham University. 


 Contact details

The Rectory, Colam Lane, Little Baddow, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 4SY

01245 227418

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Barking CME Adviser & Life Long Learning (All clergy and Readers after the curate years)

Rev'd Canon David Parrott

CME Adviser for the Barking Area, and responsibility for all post-curacy CME across the diocese.

David was ordained in 1984 and has served all his ministry in the Chelmsford Diocese. He was a curate, first in Thundersley and then in Rainham with Wennington. He served his first incumbency as Rector of Heydon, Great Chishill, Little Chishill, Chrishall, Elmdon with Wendon Lofts and Strethall in the north or the diocese. He was then Team Rector of Rayleigh in south east Essex before taking up his current post in 2004. He has a wide knowledge of the diocese and of ministry issues, and a specialist knowledge in canon and ecclesastical law. In addition to his current post he serves as Education Adviser to the Ecclesaistical Law Society. He has served on many diocesan committees and commissions, and is currently a member of General Synod.

Contact details

5 Poole Road, Hornchurch, Essex, RM11 3AS

01708 464591

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Colchester CME Adviser & Reader CME

Rev'd Dr Tim Bull

 

 CME Adviser for the Colchester Area and Reader CME across the diocese.

Tim has a wide range of experience in different situations. He has been a member of the Lee Abbey Community in Devon. He worked as a Computer Science Researcher and Software Engineer for a number of years before ordination. He has a doctorate in Computer Science. After training at Ridley Hall in Cambridge he served his cuarcy in Walcot, Bath, before moving to be half time Priest in Charge of Langham with Boxted, a job which his does at the same time as working for CME half time. He is currently studying for a PhD in Systematic Theology and Genetics at  Kings College London.

Contact details

The Rectory, Wick Road, Langham, Colchester, Essex, CO4 5PG

01206 230666

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CME Administrator

Sue Denham

Sue Denham works to support the CME Advisers, undertaking the administrative and organisational work which goes on behind the scenes.

Contact details

Diocesan Office, 53 New Street, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 1AT

01245 294450

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