Peter Allan (priest)
{{short description|British Anglican priest and monk|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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| honorific-prefix = The Reverend
| name = Peter Allan
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| title = Former Principal of the College of the Resurrection
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| diocese = Leeds
| term = 2011–2019
| predecessor = Joseph Kennedy
| successor = Mark Sowerby
| other_post = Monk of the Community of the Resurrection (1985–present)
| ordination = 1975 (deacon)
1976 (priest)
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| alma_mater = Wadham College, Oxford
College of the Resurrection
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Peter George Allan {{post-nominals|post-noms=CR}} (born 1950) is a British Anglican priest and monk. From 2011 to 2019, he was principal of the College of the Resurrection, an Anglo-Catholic theological college in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, England. He has been a monk of the Community of the Resurrection since 1985.
Early life and education
Allan was born in 1950.{{Crockford| surname = Allan | forenames = Peter George | id = 31730 | accessed = 30 November 2016}} He studied music at Wadham College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1972: as per tradition, his BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Oxon) degree in 1976. In 1972, he matriculated into the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, to study theology and train for ordination. He left the college after three years to be ordained in the Church of England.
Ordained ministry
Allan was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1975 and as a priest in 1976. From 1975 to 1978, he served his curacy at St Andrew's Church, Stevenage, an Anglo-Catholic parish in the Diocese of St Albans.{{cite web|title=Home Page|url=http://stevenagechurch.org/|website= St Andrew and St George's Church, Stevenage|accessdate=30 November 2016}}{{cite web|title=THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW & ST GEORGE, STEVENAGE|url=http://stevenagechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/List-of-Rectors-and-Curates.pdf|website=Stevenage Church |accessdate=30 November 2016|year=2015}} Then, from 1978 to 1982, he was chaplain of Wadham College, Oxford, and a curate of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford.{{cite web|title=People: Fr Peter Allan CR|url=http://college.mirfield.org.uk/about-us/people/|website= The College of the Resurrection|accessdate=30 November 2016}}
In 1982, Allan joined the Community of the Resurrection as a novice.{{cite web|title=Singing Our Faith study day|url=http://www.mirfieldcompanions.org.uk/cd16fl01.pdf|website= Community of the Resurrection|accessdate=30 November 2016|date=July 2016}} In 1985, he made his vows, thereby becoming a monk and a full member of the Community of the Resurrection. Since 1985, he has been the precentor of the community. In 2011, he was also appointed principal of the College of the Resurrection, an Anglo-Catholic theological college that is associated with the Community of the Resurrection. He is also a lecturer in moral theology and liturgical music at the college. He stepped down as principal at the end of the 2018/2019 academic year and was succeeded by Mark Sowerby, former Bishop of Horsham.{{cite web |title=Bishop of Horsham to be Principal of the College of the Resurrection |url=https://www.chichester.anglican.org/news/2019/04/30/bishop-horsham-be-principal-college-resurrection/ |website=Diocese of Chichester |accessdate=14 May 2019 |language=en |date=30 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514193359/https://www.chichester.anglican.org/news/2019/04/30/bishop-horsham-be-principal-college-resurrection/ |archive-date=14 May 2019 |url-status=dead }} In September 2019, he returned to parish life and became an assistant priest of the Severn Loop Parishes in the Diocese of Lichfield; he remains a member of the Community of the Resurrection.{{cite web |title=Monastic and parish life meet |url=https://www.lichfield.anglican.org/monastic-life-and-parish-life.php |website=Diocese of Lichfield |access-date=14 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220614111519/https://www.lichfield.anglican.org/monastic-life-and-parish-life.php |archive-date=14 June 2022 |date=18 September 2019}}{{Crockford| surname = Allan | forenames = Peter George | id = 31730 | accessed = 14 June 2022}}
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In January 2016, Allan signed an open letter addressed to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, asking for "Acknowledgement that we, the Church, have failed in our duty of care to LGBTI members of the Body of Christ around the world" and calling for "Repentance for accepting and promoting discrimination on the grounds of sexuality, and for the pain and rejection that this has caused."{{cite web|title=Gay Anglicans and the Primates' Meeting|url=http://www.pcnbritain.org.uk/news/post/gay_anglicans_and_the_primates_meeting|website= Progressive Christianity Network Britain|accessdate=30 November 2016|date=11 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170605182906/https://www.pcnbritain.org.uk/news/post/gay_anglicans_and_the_primates_meeting |archive-date=5 June 2017}}
Selected works
- {{cite book |editor=Peter Allan |display-editors=et al |title=An English kyriale: music for the Eucharist |date=1991 |publisher=Harper Collins |location=London |isbn=978-0005992692}}
- {{cite book |editor=Peter Allan |display-editors=et al |title=The Fire and the Clay: The Priest in Today's Church |date=1993 |publisher=SPCK |location=London |isbn=978-0281047154}}
- {{cite book |editor=George Guiver |editor2= Peter Allan |display-editors=et al |title=Priests in a People's Church |date=2001 |publisher=SPCK |location=London |isbn=978-0281054053}}
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