Education
Pembroke College; The Queen"s College.
Pembroke College; The Queen"s College.
From 1995 to 1999, he was the Archdeacon of Hampstead. From 1999 to 2014, he was the Bishop of Edmonton, an area bishop in the Diocese of London. Educated at Ipswich School, The Queen"s College, Oxford, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, Wheatley trained for ordination at the College of the Resurrection and Ripon Hall, Oxford and was ordained in 1973.
Wheatley served his curacy at All Saints Church, Fulham, becoming vicar of Holy Cross in Street Pancras, London in 1978.
In 1982, he moved to become priest-in-charge of All Souls" Hampstead and Street Mary"s Kilburn. He also became vicar of Street James" in West Hampstead at this time.
While remaining a parish priest, Wheatley became the Director of Post-Ordination Training in 1988 for the Edmonton area. He became Archdeacon of Hampstead in 1995.
Wheatley was consecrated as Bishop of Edmonton in March 1999.
He announced his intention to retire at the end of 2014 to the London Diocesan Synod on 17 July 2014. He retired from full-time ministry on 31 December 2014. Doctrinal positions
Wheatley is opposed to the ordination of women as priests and bishops.
This was in response to a proposal in General Synod that the statutory legal protections concerned should be replaced with a merely advisory "Code of Practice".
Wheatley is allegedly gay. By 2003, he had been sharing his home with his partner for eight years.
He has stated that he is "a celibate Christian living by Christian teachings". Peter Wheatley (1947–1973)
The Revd Peter Wheatley (1973–1995)
The Ven Peter Wheatley (1995–1999)
The Rt Revd Peter Wheatley (1999—present).
Between 1988 and 1993, he was also Area Dean of North Camden and was a member of the General Synod from 1975 to 1995.