Background
Venables is the son of Dudley James Venables and May Nora Saddington and was educated at Chatham House Grammar School, Kingston University and Christ Church University College Canterbury, after which he was successively a computer systems officer and a school teacher before beginning his ordained ministry and serving with the Anglican Church in Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina.
Career
He is at present diocesan bishop of Southern Argentina. He was headmaster of Street Andrew"s College, Asuncion from 1978 until 1989. Venables was ordained as a deacon in 1984 and one year later as priest.
He was ordained to the episcopate in 1993.
Venables is an honorary Fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University. He is also the Patron of the Federation of Anglican Churches in the Americas.
