Will Adam
William Jonathan Adam is a Church of England priest. He was appointed Archdeacon of Canterbury in 2022 and had previously been the Deputy Secretary General of the Anglican Communion and ecumenical advisor to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Education and family
Will Adam was born in October 1969 and has two younger sisters. He was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and studied theology and English church history at Manchester University. He then attended Westcott House, Cambridge, from where he was sent to the Bossey Ecumenical Institute in Switzerland for six months in 1993. Adam later went on to earn a master’s degree and a doctorate in canon law at Cardiff Law School. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) in 2011. [1] His wife, Lindsay Yates, is also an Anglican priest and they have three daughters.[2]
Career
Adam was ordained deacon in 1994 and priest in 1995 and served in parishes in the dioceses of Oxford (1994–2002), Ely (2002–2010), and London (2010–2017).[3] While still a curate in 1996, he appeared in a television advertisement for Ford Escort cars, in which the caption stated, "Will Adam has married 14 women since he got his. . . What do you do in yours?", showing him adjusting his clerical collar.[4] In 1998, he was a youth delegate to the World Council of Churches Assembly in Harare, Zimbabwe.[5]
In 2017, Adam was appointed the Archbishop of Canterbury's Ecumenical Adviser at Lambeth Palace,[6] while also holding the role of honorary assistant priest in his wife's parish at Compton, West Sussex.[7] In 2019, he was also made director of the Department for Unity, Faith and Order in the Anglican Communion.[6] A further role was co-secretary of the Anglican-Lutheran International Commission on Unity and Mission (ALICUM).[5] In February 2021, he was appointed Deputy Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, based at the Anglican Communion Office (ACO) at Westbourne Park.[6]
Change of direction
In 2020 Adam surrendered the editorship of the Ecclesiastical Law Journal because his "burgeoning oecumenical brief" meant he would have insufficient time to devote to the role. Then in February 2021 he was asked to leave Lambeth Palace, tweeting when he collected his belongings on 16 April "Saying au revoir, rather than goodbye to Lambeth Palace as I shift all my stuff out." The same month, he was appointed Deputy Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, based at the Anglican Communion Office (ACO) adjacent to Portobello Road market.[6]
Following the departure of the Very Reverend Jo Kelly-Moore, who was made Dean of St Albans, the post of Archdeacon of Canterbury and Residentiary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral was advertised in November 2021, with a closing date of 6 January 2022 and interviews to take place on 2 and 3 February 2022.[8] The prospectus opened by stating that the post would receive the "Archdeacon's Stipend." The detailed Recruitment Pack (page 11) stated "The Archdeacon receives a stipend at the level recommended by the Central Stipends Authority (subject to annual decision by the Archbishop's Council)."[9] The post therefore offered a stipend of 39,058 pounds per annum compared to Adam's previous salary of 60,000 pounds plus free housing. Accommodation would continue to be free but Adam's wife would lose her stipend. There is a laid down process for appointments in which application forms are scrutinised by a committee.[10][11] In March 2022 Adam's appointment was announced. Dr Adam and Canterbury Cathedral confirmed that he had been "invited" to leave his previous position.[4][12] He was installed at Canterbury during Evensong on 18 July 2022,[13][14] but seconded back to the ACO for the Fifteenth Lambeth Conference between 27 July and 7 August 2022.[2]
Bibliography
- Will Adam, Legal flexibility and the mission of the Church: dispensation and economy in ecclesiastical law Farnham, Surrey, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4094-2055-2
- Lindsay Yates and Will Adam, Canon law and the newly ordained, (third edition, 2011), Ministry Division of the Church of England, Church House Publishing, London.
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External links
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- Religion, law and the constitution: The Reverend Dr Will Adam Professor Javier Garcia Oliva (University of Manchester Law School) and Revd Dr Helen Hall (Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University)
