Archdeacon appointment announced

Canon David Jenkins has served in Ely, Oxford, Blackburn and Carlisle

The appointment of a new Archdeacon for Suffolk has been announced.

Canon David Jenkins will be licensed as the Archdeacon of Sudbury at services in west Suffolk and at St Edmundsbury Cathedral in February 2010.

He has been a priest for 20 years and a director of education in the diocese of Carlisle for the last five years.

He succeeds the Venerable David Brierley, 55, who suffered a heart attack at his home in Great Welnetham in August.

The Church of England in Suffolk has two Archdeacons whose role is to support the clergy and parishes and to be a link to the Bishop of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich, the Right Reverend Nigel Stock.

The Archdeacon of Sudbury operates in the west of the county and is responsible for more than 200 parishes.