John Gladwin

Who is John Gladwin?

John Warren Gladwin is the former Bishop of Chelmsford in the Church of England. He stands in the open evangelical tradition.

Gladwin was educated at Hertford Grammar School and Churchill College, Cambridge. His ministerial training was at Cranmer Hall, Durham. He was ordained deacon in 1967, priest in 1968, and bishop in 1994. He married Lydia Elizabeth Adam, daughter of the late William Adam and the late Ivy Amelia Adam in 1981. They married in Christchurch, Fulwood in the Diocese of Sheffield. The preacher was the Very Revd Brandon Jackson, Provost of Bradford Cathedral.

Born in Hertford, he was Provost of Sheffield from 1988 to 1994 and Bishop of Guildford from 1994 to 2004 when he was appointed to be Bishop of Chelmsford. He has been a member of the House of Lords since 1999.

Christian engagement with public affairs has been a constant theme throughout his ministry. For six years he was Director of the Shaftesbury Project on Christian Involvement in Society, before becoming Secretary of the Church of England’s Board for Social Responsibility. He was chair of the Ministry Division of the Church of England until 2006.