Neil Collings

Neil Collings was an eminent Anglican priest in the 21st century ^[1]

He was born on 26 August 1946 and educated at Torquay Boys' Grammar School and King's College London and ordained in 1970. ^[2]After this he was Curate, then Vicar of Exmouth.^[3] Later he was Director of Ordinands for the Diocese of Hereford and then Rector of Harpenden. In 1999 he was made Residentiary Canon of Exeter Cathedral. In 2006 he became Dean of St Edmundsbury,^[4] retiring through ill health in 2009.

He died on 26 June 2010.

Notes

↑ Daily Telegraph Obituary Page 33 No 48,236 (dated 2 July 2010)
↑ Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) ISBN 0-7151-8088-6
↑ Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
↑ Debrett's People of Today London, Debrett's, 2008 ISBN 978-1-870520-95-9

Provosts and Deans of St Edmundsbury

Provosts	John Orpen John White John Waddington David Maddock Raymond Furnell James Atwell (became Dean)

Deans	James Atwell (previously Provost) Neil Collings Frances Ward

Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich

St Edmundsbury Cathedral The Bishop's House, Ipswich St Nicholas Centre, Ipswich

Office holders	Martin Seeley, Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Mike Harrison, Bishop of Dunwich AEO: Norman Banks, Bishop suffragan of Richborough Frances Ward, Dean of St Edmundsbury David Jenkins, Archdeacon of Sudbury Ian Morgan, Archdeacon of Suffolk Archdeacon of Ipswich (vacant; not to be filled)

Historic offices	Provosts of St Edmundsbury (1929–2000; see Dean of St Edmundsbury)

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