Background
Ipgrave was born on 19 April 1958 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom.
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Michael Ipgrave
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He was educated at Magdalen College School, Brackley, a state school in South Northamptonshire. From 1975 to 1978, he studied mathematics at Oriel College, Oxford, and graduated from the University of Oxford with a first class Bachelor of Arts (Bachelor) degree. During that period he also studied theology at the University of Oxford, and graduated with a additional first class Bachelor.
Career
Since 2012, he has been the Bishop of Woolwich, an area bishop in the Diocese of Southwark. He served as Archdeacon of Southwark between 2004 and 2012. From 1979 to 1982, he trained for ordination at Ripon College Cuddesdon, an Anglican theological college near Oxford.
After a curacy in Oakham followed by time in Japan, he was a team vicar in two separate Leicester parishes.
In Leicester, in 1991, he was appointed diocesan chaplain for relations with people of other faiths, and bishops" domestic chaplain in 1992. He was appointed Archdeacon of Southwark in 2004.
In 2010 he also became Canon Missioner of Southwark Cathedral. He is co-chair of Southwark and London Housing Association.
He was formerly Inter Faith Relations Advisor to the Archbishops" Council and secretary of the Churches" Commission on Inter-Faith Relations.
Episcopal ministry
On 3 February 2012, Ipgrave was announced as the next Bishop of Woolwich, an area bishop in the Diocese of Southwark. On 21 March 2012, he was consecrated a bishop during a service in Southwark Cathedral. He also served as Warden of Readers for the diocese.
In May 2013 Ipgrave read bidding prayers at a Mass for Lee Rigby who was murdered by Islamists in the 2013 Woolwich attack.
On 2 March 2016, it was announced that Ipgrave is to become diocesan Bishop of Lichfield later in 2016. Ipgrave was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the New Year List 2011 for services to inter-faith relations.
