The Revd Canon Dr William Lamb is the Vicar of the University Church and an Honorary Canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford. After reading Theology at Balliol College, he trained for the ministry at Westcott House in Cambridge. Ordained in 1995, he served as a curate at Halifax Minster before serving as a parish priest in South Yorkshire. At the same time, he worked as a Tutor at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield. In 2001, he became the Anglican Chaplain at the University of Sheffield, where he taught in the Department of Biblical Studies. From 2005 until 2010, he was also a Canon Residentiary of Sheffield Cathedral.
In 2010, he became the Vice-Principal of Westcott House, Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, where he taught New Testament Studies. He returned to Oxford in 2017. From 2017 - 2024, he served as the Chair of St Augustine's Foundation, which funds theological education in the Anglican Communion. He is an Associate Member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion, and a Supernumerary Fellow of Harris Manchester College. A New Testament scholar by background, he writes about the history of Biblical commentary and the interpretation of scripture.
Will is also the slightly bemused owner of a three-legged labrador called Fenton.
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