John Perumbalath

Before retiring in January 2025, The Revd Dr John Perumbalath had served as Bishop of Liverpool since 2023. He has a PhD in Hermeneutics from King’s College London. He moved to the UK in 2001 and served at Beckenham St George’s as Associate Rector, at Rosherville St Mark’s as Priest-in-Charge/Team Vicar and at Northfleet All Saints (all in the Diocese of Rochester) as Vicar. He was the chair of North Kent Council for Inter-faith Relations from 2008 to 2013, during which time he was also the Diocese of Rochester’s Urban Adviser and Link Officer for the Church Urban Fund. He was collated as Archdeacon of Barking on 15 September 2013 with the oversight of the Anglican churches in the London boroughs of Barking & Dagenham and Havering. During this time, he also served as the chair of the Church of England’s Committee for Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns (CMEAC), chair of the London Churches Refugee Network, and as a member of the Mission and Public Affairs Council of the Church of England.

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