Martin Webster (priest)

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Martin Duncan Webster (born 1952 in Hornchurch){{Crockford

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}} has been Archdeacon of Harlow[http://www.chelmsford.anglican.org/areas-and-bishops/archdeacons/barking-area Diocese of Chelmsford web-site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150601183905/http://www.chelmsford.anglican.org/areas-and-bishops/archdeacons/barking-area |date=2015-06-01 }} since 2009.‘WEBSTER, Ven. Martin Duncan’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, Nov 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U250315, accessed 23 May 2015] On 22 December 2016, it was announced that he is to retire on 31 March 2017.{{Church Times

| title = Appointments

| url = https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2017/13-january/gazette/appointments/appointments

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Webster was educated at the University of Nottingham and Lincoln Theological College; and ordained deacon in 1978, and priest, in 1979. He served curacies in Thundersley and Canvey Island. He was Vicar of All Saints, Nazeing from 1986 to 1999; Rural Dean of Harlow from, 1988 to 1999; and Team Rector of Waltham Abbey from 1999 to 2009.