A DUBLIN man has been elected leader or primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Bishop David Chillingworth was elected at an Episcopal synod held during the recent annual meeting of the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church.
Born in Dublin in 1951, Bishop Chillingworth grew up in Northern Ireland. He studied at Trinity College Dublin and at Oriel College Oxford.
He has been Bishop of St Andrew’s, Dunkeld and Dunblane since 2005, which followed his ministry within the Church of Ireland at Seagoe parish in Portadown, Co Armagh, where he was rector for 19 years. Earlier he had been dean of Dromore, archdeacon of Dromore and he was Church of Ireland youth officer from 1979 to 1983.
He is married to Alison, a social worker who specialises in fostering and adoption. They have three grown-up children, Anna, Simon and Mark.
