Mark Rylands Cleric
Mark James Rylands (born 11 July 1961) is the area Bishop of Shrewsbury in the Church of England.He was born on 11 July 1961, the son of Canon Thomas Michael Rylands, sometime Vicar of Wilton and Rural Dean of Malpas. He was educated at the College of St Hild and St Bede and Trinity College, Bristol. He was ordained in 1988 and began his career with a curacy at St George's, Stockport. He was then Vicar of Acton and Worleston, Cheshire and from 1997 to 2002 Team Rector for Langport, Somerset. Since then until his elevation to the Episcopate he has been Diocesan Missioner and a Canon Residentiary at Exeter Cathedral.Rylands was consecrated a bishop at Westminster Abbey on 28 October 2009 and installed as Bishop of Shrewsbury at Lichfield Cathedral on 2 November 2009.His wife Amanda is also a priest and they have two adult children, Frances and Samuel.
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