Peter Stephen Maurice Selby is a retired British Anglican bishop.
Education
He was educated at Street John"s College, Oxford, and at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, taking the Oxford degree of Master of Arts(Oxfordshire) (1967, Bachelor 1964) and the Cambridge, Massachusetts, degree of Bachelor's Degree (1966). He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from King"s College London in 1975.
Career
He retired at the end of September 2007. He was appointed Bishop of Worcester in 1997. Selby had disagreed with the 1998 Lambeth agreement that bishops would not ordain homosexuals as clergy.
In 2002 he was asked to affirm this by one of his own clergymen, Charles Raven, the vicar of Saint John"s Church, Kidderminster.
He refused to do so, and was therefore asked not to come to the church to confirm people, since there would be no agreement as to what the faith being confirmed was. The story made the national press several times.
Selby and the Rt Revd Doctor John Saxbee were appointed Episcopal Patrons of the international Number Anglican Covenant Coalition in July 2011. Since retirement Selby served for five years as President of the National Council for Independent Monitoring Boards, the Boards monitoring fairness and respect for those in custody.
He retired from that post in 2013, and has since been an interim co-director of Street Paul"s Institute, the Cathedral"s agency that dialogues with the financial sector in the City of London.
Peter Selby Esq (1941–1966)
The Revd Peter Selby (1966–1975)
The Revd Doctor Peter Selby (1975–1977)
The Revd Canon Doctor Peter Selby (1977–1984)
The Rt Revd Doctor Peter Selby (1984–1992. 1997–present)
The Rt Revd Professor Peter Selby (1992–1997).
Membership
He was Assistant Curate, Queensbury, 1966-1968. Associate Director of Training, Southwark, 1969-1973. Assistant Curate, Limpsfield with Titsey, 1969-1977.
Vice-Principal, Southwark Ordination Course, 1970-1972.
Assistant Missioner, Diocese of Southwark, 1973-1977. Canon Residentiary, Newcastle Cathedral, 1977-1984.
Diocesan Missioner, Diocese of Newcastle, 1977-1984. Bishop of Kingston 1984–1992 (an area bishop from 1991).
William Leech Professorial Fellow in Applied Christian Theology, University of Durham, 1992–1997.
Honorary assistant bishop in the dioceses of Durham and of Newcastle, 1992-1997. Visitor General, Community of Sisters of the Church, 1991–2001, a Member of the Doctrine Commission, 1991–2003, and President of the Modern Churchpeople"s Union, 1990-1996 and of the Society for Study of Theology, 2003-2004. Bishop to Her Majesty Prisons, 2001–2007 and from January 2008 became the President of the National Council for Independent Monitoring Boards for prisons.
As Raven"s licence was not renewable he had to leave his post, an founded a breakaway congregation, taking with him about half the members of the church he had served.