Ripon College Cuddesdon
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<references/>Ripon College Cuddesdon is a Permanent Private Hall in the University of Oxford. It is an Anglican theological college (seminary) located in Cuddesdon, a small village a short distance from Oxford.
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[edit] Tradition
Traditionally it stood in the liberal Catholic tradition of the Church of England. The college was founded in 1854 as the Oxford Diocesan Seminary, by Samuel Wilberforce, bishop of Oxford, as a training establishment for graduates from Oxford and Cambridge and quickly became known as Cuddesdon College . The college buildings, mostly designed by G E Street, were erected opposite his episcopal palace. The "Ripon" part of the college's current name (which deliberately contains no comma) derives from an amalgamation in 1977 with Ripon Hall, a modernist liberal theological college formerly at Boar's Hill near Oxford. Current students, who come with a wide range of previous experience, pursue a two or three year course of study incorporating pastoral and academic training. Courses of study are validated by Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University. Nowadays Cuddesdon students (of either sex) come from across the spectrum of the Church of England. It is one of the many training institutions that no longer have a party character. It maintains a regular and disciplined approach to prayer, and seeks to help students develop a serious and critical approach to the Christian tradition. Recently it has merged with the part-time Oxford Ministry Course which now operates out of the College.
[edit] Staff members
Among the college's previous staff members are: Edward King, who later became bishop of Lincoln, Charles Gore, bishop of Birmingham and Oxford, and Robert Runcie, archbishop of Canterbury. When Runcie retired from the archbishopric he took the title Baron Runcie of Cuddesdon.
The current principal is the Revd Canon Professor Martyn Percy, who is apparently the only living person to be referred to in Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Chris Bryant MP
- Richard Chartres - Bishop of London
- Cyril Garbett - Archbishop of York (1942-1955)
- John Hall- Dean of Westminster Abbey(2006-)
- David Hand - Archbishop of Papua New Guinea
- John Hind - Bishop of Chichester
- Graham Richard James - Bishop of Norwich
- Richard Harries - Bishop of Oxford (1987-2005)
- Michael Mayne - Dean of Westminster Abbey (1986-1996)
- Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Michael Perham - Bishop of Gloucester
- Stephen Platten - Bishop of Wakefield
- Anthony Priddis - Bishop of Hereford
- Arthur Michael Ramsey - Archbishop of Canterbury (1961-1974)
- Michael Scott-Joynt - Bishop of Winchester
- Stephen Sykes - Bishop of Ely (1990-2000)
- Robert Willis - Dean of Canterbury
[edit] Literature
- Chapman, Mark D. (ed.), Ambassadors of Christ. Commemorating 150 Years of Theological Education in Cuddesdon 1854-2004, Burlington (Ashgate) 2004.
- Chapman, Mark D., God's Holy Hill. A History of Christianity in Cuddesdon, Charlbury (The Wychwood Press) 2004.
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