Paul Ayers

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Paul Nicholas Ayers (b September 1961)[https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/E0XDWdT7FHy_aYOTxHLIE32M0pk/appointments Companies House] has been Archdeacon of Leeds since 2017.{{Crockford

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Ayers has a family with 4 children and 12 grandchildren, his favourite of which is his first grandchild Lydia.

Ayers was educated at St Peter's College, Oxford and Trinity College, Bristol. He was ordained in 1986.

His posts up to 2017 were

• 1985-88: Curate St John the Baptist, Clayton, West Yorkshire
• 1988-91: Curate, St Andrew, Keighley
• 1991-1997: Vicar St Cuthbert, Wrose
• 1997-2017:Vicar, SS Laurence & Paul, Pudsey[http://www.westyorkshiredales.anglican.org/news/new-archdeacon-leeds-announced West Yorkshire Dales]