Alastair Cutting
British Church of England priest
Alastair Murray Cutting (born 29 May 1960) is a British Anglican bishop. Since July 2024, he has been Bishop of Woolwich, an area bishop in the Church of England's Diocese of Southwark. From 2013 to 2024, he has served as the Archdeacon of Lewisham & Greenwich. He was consecrated as Bishop of Woolwich on July 3 2024 in Southwark Cathedral.
Early life and education
Cutting was born on 29 May 1960 in Birmingham, England, the son of William Alexander Murray Cutting and his wife, Margaret McLean Cutting, née Manderson. He was educated in three different countries: at George Watson's College, a private school in Edinburgh, Scotland; at Lushington Boys School, a private international Christian school in Ootacamund, India; and at Watford Grammar School for Boys, a state comprehensive school in Watford, England. He grew up in South India where his parents worked at a rural hospital and "where four generations of his family lived and worked for nearly a century".
Cutting took a gap year between school and university, during which he worked with the Salvation Army in South India. He then returned to England, working as a science laboratory technician at a school. In 1980 he studied teaching and youth work at Westhill College, (now part of University of Birmingham).
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