Behind the Name
Every month, StOM prints the Anglican Calendar of Prayer, but have you ever thought about what or who lies behind the name and place specified every Sunday?
In each issue, we will feature some information about some of the people / places for whom your prayers are being asked.
Archbishop Richard Clarke was born in Dublin in 1949.
He studied history and political science at Trinity College Dublin and later theology at King’ s College, London, where he also met his future wife, Linda, who sadly died in 2009. He was made deacon for the curacy of Hollywood Co Down, and, in 1977, returned to Dublin to the curacy of St Bartholomew’ s with Christ Church Leeson Park.
A series of appointments later, he was elected Bishop of Meath and Kildare, He has a particular commitment to the search for Christian unity.
Archbishop Richard holds a doctorate from the University of Dublin and is a prolific writer on theological and historical matters.
Archbishop Richard became Archbishop of Armagh and Primate in December 2012.
He has two children, Nicholas( Nick) and Lindsey who are both medical doctors, as is his daughter-in-law, Marianne.
The archbishop lists his recreations as poetry, biography and music, both classical and jazz, and he follows rugby, cricket( Worcestershire, from where Linda came originally), motor-racing and a North London football club whose twenty-first century stadium was sponsored by a certain Arabian airline.
When he came to Armagh, Archbishop Richard said that he hoped to encourage the Church to become a community of disciples where every member of the Church would regard himself or herself as a " front-line evangelist ".
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