Ron Woodley

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Ronald John (Ron) Woodley (born Edmonton, London 28 December 1925 - 25 February 2017) was Archdeacon of Cleveland from 1985Church news. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 14 November 1984; pg. 14; Issue 61986 to 1991.Church news The Times (London, England), Saturday, 13 April 1991; pg. 10; Issue 63992.{{cite web |title=The Venerable Ronald Woodley |url=https://dioceseofyork.org.uk/news-events/news/the-venerable-ronald-woodley/ |publisher=diocese of York |accessdate=11 November 2020}}

Woodley was educated at St Augustine's College, Canterbury and Bishops' College, Cheshunt. He was ordained Deacon in 1953, and Priest in 1954.{{Crockford

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}} After curacies in Middlesbrough and Whitby he was Vicar of The Ascension, Middlesbrough from 1966 to 1971; then Rector of Stokesley from 1971 to 1985. He was Canon of York from 1982 to 2000.‘WOODLEY, Ven. Ronald John’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, November 2016 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U40615, accessed 12 March 2017]