Alan Winstanley (bishop)

Alan Leslie Winstanley (born 7 May 1949) was the Bishop of Peru and Bolivia from 1988 to 1993.

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Winstanley was educated at St John's College, Nottingham and ordained in 1973.^[1] He began his ordained ministry with curacies in Blackburn and Liverpool. He was vicar of Penketh from 1978 to 1981. He was a South American Mission Society missionary in Lima (1981–1985) then Arequipa (1986–1987) before his ordination to the episcopate; and vicar of Eastham, Whittle-le-Woods and Shirwell afterwards.^[2] He is now an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Chester, having also served in that role in Exeter and Blackburn dioceses.^[1]