Background
Hughes was born on 3 October 1975 in Honiara, the Solomon Islands, to John and Jill Hughes.
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Education
He studied theology at Greyfriars, Oxford, then a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Bachelor) degree in 1997. During this time, he also undertook post-graduate study at Street Edmund"s College, Cambridge, and graduated with a Master of Philosophy (Master of Philosophy) degree in 1999. The Master of Philosophy is a one-year taught master"s degree at the University of Cambridge.
Career
Since 2014, he has been the Archdeacon of Cambridge. He was brought up in England. In Southampton and in Seaford, East Sussex.
He was educated at the Priory School, a state school in Lewes, East Sussex, and at Eton College, an all-boys public school in Eton, Berkshire.
He spend the year following graduation working with the Parker Pen Company as a factory labourer. lieutenant was during his undergraduate degree that Hughes felt a call to ordination.
In 1998, he entered Westcott House, Cambridge, an Anglican theological college, to train for ordained ministry. He later undertook further study at Street Edmund"s College and completed a Doctor of Philosophy (Doctor of Philosophy) degree in 2011.
His doctoral thesis was titled "The gospel of divine action: Oliver Chase Quick and the quest for a Christocentric metaphysic".
From 2000 to 2003, he served his curacy at Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry, Oxford. In 2003, he moved to the Diocese of Portsmouth where he was the youngest priest in the whole diocese. From 2003 to 2008, he was Domestic Chaplain to Kenneth Stevenson, the then Bishop of Portsmouth.
He then returned to parish ministry and was licensed as priest in charge of both Street Luke"s Church and Street Peter"s Church in Portsea, Portsmouth on 2 October 2008.
He then served as vicar of the newly created parish of Street Luke"s with Street Peter"s between 2013 and 2014. The parish is in one of the poorest parts of Portsmouth, Somerstown, and the vicarage was burgled during his incumbency.
However, Hughes has described the people of Somerstown to be "generally extremely welcoming". He was notable for reaching out to his inner city community through holding services in tower blocks as well as the more traditional church services.
In 2014, he moved from Portsmouth to the Diocese of Ely.
He had been appointed Archdeacon of Cambridge, and this was made official on 14 September 2014 during a service at the Church of Street Mary the Great, Cambridge. He succeeded John Beer who had been archdeacon from 2004 to 2014. On 25 November 2014, he was made an honorary canon of Ely Cathedral.
