Background
Snow was born in 1968 in Indonesia.
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Martyn Snow
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He was educated at Sheffield University.
Career
Since 2016, he has been the Bishop of Leicester. He previously served as Bishop of Tewkesbury from 2013 to 2016, and as Archdeacon of Sheffield and Rotherham from 2010 to 2013. He trained for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, an Anglican theological college in the evangelical tradition.
Snow ordained in 1995.
He was an assistant curate at Street Andrew"s Brinsworth with Catcliffe and Treeton before service with the Church Mission Society in Guinea. He was Vicar of Christ Church, Pitsmoor from 2001 to 2010 and Area Dean of Ecclesfield from 2007.
Episcopal ministry
On 25 September 2013, Snow was consecrated a bishop by Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, during a service in Westminster Abbey. In October 2013, he started his duties as Bishop of Tewkesbury, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Gloucester.
He was acting diocesan Bishop of Gloucester from 5 August 2014 until Rachel Treweek took up the role of diocesan bishop in June 2015.
On 15 December 2015, it was announced that he would be translated to become Bishop of Leicester in 2016. Snow became Bishop of Leicester with the confirmation of his election on 22 February 2016.
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Evangelican