Hayward Osborne
{{Short description|British Anglican priest}}
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| honorific-prefix = The Reverend
| name = Hayward Osborne
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| title = Archdeacon of Birmingham
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| church = Church of England
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| diocese = Diocese of Birmingham
| term = May 2001 to November 2018
| predecessor = John Duncan
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| ordination = 1973 (deacon)
1974 (priest)
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| birth_name = Hayward John Osborne
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|9|16|df=y}}
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| nationality = British
| religion = Anglicanism
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| spouse = {{marriage|Sandra Julie Hollander|1973}}
| children = Five
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| education = Sevenoaks School
| alma_mater = New College, Oxford
Westcott House, Cambridge
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Hayward John Osborne (born 16 September 1948) is a retired British Anglican priest. He was the Archdeacon of Birmingham from 2001Church News The Times (London, England), Tuesday, April 03, 2001; pg. 18; Issue 67103{{Cite web |url=http://www.cofebirmingham.com/archdeacons/ |title=Diocese of Birmingham |access-date=14 December 2015 |archive-date=22 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222133557/http://www.cofebirmingham.com/archdeacons/ |url-status=dead }} until his 2018 retirement. He was previously a parish priest in the Diocese of Rochester, the Diocese of Worcester, and the Diocese of Birmingham.
Early life and education
Osborne was born on 16 September 1948 to Ernest and Frances Joy Osborne.{{cite web|title=OSBORNE, Ven. Hayward John|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U41780|website=Who's Who 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=17 September 2016|date=November 2016}} He was educated at Sevenoaks School, a private school in Sevenoaks, Kent. He studied at New College, Oxford and Westcott House, Cambridge.
Ordained ministry
Osborne was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1973 and as a priest in 1974.{{Crockford| surname = Osborne | forenames = Hayward John | id = 28781 | accessed = 17 September 2016}} From 1973 to 1977, he served his curacy at St Peter and St Paul, Bromley in the Diocese of Rochester. He moved to the Diocese of Worcester where he was an assistant curate at St John the Baptist, Halesowen between 1977 and 1980. From 1980 to 1983, he was Team Vicar of St John's, Halesowen. Then, from 1983 to 1988, he was Team Rector of St Barnabas, Worcester.
In 1988, Osborne moved to the Diocese of Birmingham. He was Vicar of St Mary's Church, Moseley from 1988 until 2001. He was also Area Dean of Moseley from 1994 until 2001.Crockford's 2008-09 p608 Lambeth, Church House, 2008 {{ISBN|978-0-7151-1030-0}} In May 2001, he was appointed Archdeacon of Birmingham.{{cite web|title=Archdeacons|url=http://www.cofebirmingham.com/archdeacons/|website=Diocese of Birmingham|publisher=Church of England|accessdate=18 September 2016|date=2013|archive-date=6 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806195512/http://www.cofebirmingham.com/archdeacons/|url-status=dead}} He was also priest in charge of St Bartholomew's Church, Allen's Cross from 2008 to 2009.
From 1998 to 2015, Osborne was a member of the General Synod of the Church of England.‘OSBORNE, Ven. Hayward John’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015; online edn, Nov 2015 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U41780, accessed 14 Dec 2015] He retired on 1 November 2018.{{cite web |url=http://www.cofebirmingham.com/news/2018/10/03/notification-appointments/ |title=Notification of Appointments - The Church of England - Birmingham |website=www.cofebirmingham.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011014152/http://www.cofebirmingham.com/news/2018/10/03/notification-appointments/ |archive-date=2018-10-11}}
Personal life
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Category:People educated at Sevenoaks School
Category:Alumni of New College, Oxford
Category:Alumni of Westcott House, Cambridge
Category:Archdeacons of Birmingham
Category:20th-century Church of England clergy
Category:21st-century Church of England clergy
Category:Members of the General Synod of the Church of England