At the age of 42, after a career in industry, I was ordained deacon in St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham on 2nd July 2006. At ordination I started a curacy at St Alphege Church in the Parish of Solihull, Diocese of Birmingham, Church of England. I was ordained priest on 3rd June 2007.
In April 2010 our family moved to Lapworth, on the South Eastern edge of the Diocese of Birmingham. I have been Rector of Baddesley Clinton and Lapworth since my institution by the Bishop of Birmingham on 5th May 2010.
My e-mail address is patrick@gerard.net .
