Stephen Pedley


Geoffrey Stephen Pedley was the Bishop suffragan of Lancaster from 1998 until 2005.
He was educated at Marlborough and Queens' College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1966 after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon he began his career with curacies in Liverpool and Coventry before a spell in Zambia. Returning to England in 1977 he became Vicar of St Peter's, Stockton-on-Tees and then Whickham before becoming a Residentiary Canon at Durham Cathedral, a post he held until his elevation to the Episcopate.