Peter Hall (bishop)

Albert Peter Hall (2 September 1930 – 27 December 2013) was the Bishop of Woolwich from 1984 until 1996^[1] and the first area bishop under the 1991 area scheme.^[2][3]

The Rt Revd Peter Hall MA(Cantab)
Bishop of Woolwich
Diocese	Diocese of Southwark
In office	1984–1996
Predecessor	Michael Marshall
Successor	Colin Buchanan
Other posts	Area bishop of Woolwich (1991–1996) Honorary assistant bishop in Birmingham (1997–present)
Orders
Ordination	1955 (deacon); 1956 (priest)
Consecration	1984
Personal details
Born	(1930-09-02)2 September 1930
Died	27 December 2013(2013-12-27) (aged 83)
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	William & Bertha
Spouse	Valerie Page (m. 1957)
Children	2 sons
Alma mater	St John's College, Cambridge

Hall was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, and St John's College, Cambridge.^[4] Ordained in 1956 he began his ministry as a curate at St Martin's, Birmingham after which he was the Rector of Avondale, Southern Rhodesia, and then of St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham, before his ordination to the episcopate. A keen mountain walker, he was married with two sons^[5] and in retirement continued to serve the church as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Birmingham.