Colin Podmore

Colin Podmore is a Cornishman who read history at Keble College, Oxford. His D. Phil thesis was published as The Moravian Church in England, 1728-1760 (Oxford, 1998). Formerly Deputy Secretary of the Church of England's Council for Christian Unity and later Secretary of the Liturgical Commission and the Dioceses Commission and Clerk to the General Synod, he was Director of Forward in Faith from 2013 to 2020. His publications include (as editor) Community - Unity - Communion: Essays in Honour of Mary Tanner (Church House Publishing, 1998), Prayers to Remember: An Essential Selection of Classic Prayers (DLT 2001) and articles on the Moravian Church, Anglican church history and ecclesiology and The Episcopal Church (USA). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2017 he received the Lanfranc Award for education and scholarship from the Archbishop of Canterbury, and he was appointed MBE for services to the Church of England in 2020.