Michael Marshall

Michael Eric Marshall (born 14 April 1936) is a British Anglican bishop who served as the eighth Bishop of Woolwich in the Church of England from 1975 to 1984. Education and career Marshall was educated at Lincoln Grammar School and Christ's College, Cambridge. He was ordained a deacon at Michaelmas (26 September) 1960 by the Rt. Rev. Leonard Wilson, Bishop of Birmingham, at St Peter's Church, Spring Hill, in Birmingham, and was ordained a priest the following Michaelmas (25 September 1961) by the Rt. Rev. Michael Parker, Bishop of Aston, at St Agatha's Church, Sparkbrook. His first ministry position was as a curate at St Peter's Church, Spring Hill, after which he was temporarily a tutor at Ely Theological College and then a chaplain at the University of London. Appointed vicar of All Saints, Margaret Street, London, in 1969, he was consecrated Bishop of Woolwich by the Most Rev. Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey six years later, on 23 September 1975. Resigning in 1984, he became Director of the Anglican Institute in St Louis, Missouri, in the United States of America before returning to England to be Director of Evangelism at Chichester Theological College. He then became, first, priest in charge and, later, rector of Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, in London, from 1997 to 2007.