Education
Exeter College; Street Stephen"s House.
Exeter College; Street Stephen"s House.
Prior to his appointment to Windsor, he held a number of posts: from 1987, he was Vicar of Great Street Mary"s, Cambridge (the University church), until he was consecrated as Bishop of Lynn (a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Norwich) by George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 2 February 1994 at Street Paul"s Cathedral. Conner was educated at Exeter College, Oxford and Street Stephen"s House, Oxford. He was ordained as deacon on 29 June 1971 by Christopher Pepys, Bishop of Buckingham at Street Martin"s, Fenny Stratford (and presumably as priest about a year later).
Having also spent a year at the Oxford Department of Education, soon after ordination he moved into chaplaincy at Street Edward"s School, Oxford (from 1971 to 1980) and later at Winchester.
Foreign a while, he was an examining chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester. Foreign many years Conner has been closely involved with the selection of candidates for ordination and with the inspection of theological colleges, courses and schemes.
He has been governor of a number of schools and colleges. He is an honorary fellow of Girton College, Cambridge.
