Richard Jackson

Richard Charles Jackson (born 22 January 1961) is a British Anglican bishop. He is the current Bishop of Hereford in the Church of England and a former Bishop suffragan of Lewes. Early life and education Jackson was born on 22 January 1961. He studied at Latymer Upper School, then at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1983. He studied at the Cranfield Institute of Technology, completing a Master of Science (MSc) degree in 1985. In 1992, he matriculated into Trinity College, Bristol, an Evangelical Anglican theological college: he spent the next two years studying theology and training for ordained ministry. Ordained ministry Jackson was ordained into the Church of England: made a deacon at Petertide 1994 (2 July), by Eric Kemp, Bishop of Chichester, at Chichester Cathedral; and ordained a priest the Petertide following (2 July 1995), by Lindsay Urwin, Bishop of Horsham, at St Mary's, Horsham. After a curacy in Lindfield he was Vicar of Rudgwick from 1998 until 2009 (also Rural Dean of Horsham from 2005) when he became the Diocese of Chichester's Advisor for Mission and Renewal. Episcopal ministry Jackson was consecrated as a bishop on 14 May 2014 at Westminster Abbey by Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury. From then, he served as Bishop of Lewes, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Chichester. It was announced on 3 September 2019 that Jackson was to become the next Bishop of Hereford; he was elected to that See on 6 December 2019 and his election confirmed 7 January 2020. As Bishop of Hereford, he took part in the 2023 Coronation as one of the two Bishops Assistant to Queen Camilla.