Anthony J. Carr
The Right Revd. Dr. Anthony J. Carr (born 1932, Birmingham, England) is a British nurse and clergyman.
Carr was born in Birmingham, England, the eldest of three boys. Leaving school at 14 years and poorly educated, he began working life in a factory later becoming a ward orderly in Selly Oak Hospital at 18 years after becoming a conscientious objector.
He entered general nurse training at Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, at the age of eighteen (18) becoming a Registered Nurse in 1954. He successively held the posts of: district nurse, assistant matron, area officer of the Royal College of Nursing and Principal of the William Rathbone Staff College, Liverpool.
He followed this by the appointment as Chief Nursing Officer over nine hospitals in the Wirral, Cheshire. He ended this part of his career by becoming Chief Nursing Officer over 17 hospitals and the community nursing services in the city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne for twelve years. During that time he was also a pastoral elder of the Assemblies of God Church Bethshan in the city.
Anthony became chairman of two important working parties at the department of health. In 1975 he chaired a working party of the Education and Training of SRN/RGN in District Nursing and later chaired another group on the Education and Training of the Enrolled Nurse in the Community. Action on the former report resulted in district nurse training being moved to colleges of further and higher education and paved the way for the present degree in district nursing. For this work he was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing.
He was one of four members of a committee (Cumberledge) set up by the Secretary of State for Health in 1985 to review the Community Nursing Services in England.The Report is entitled,Neighbourhood Nursing - A Focus for Change. HM Stationery Office (1986)
Minister
In 1990 he took up another career as a minister in a Christian church becoming ordained first in the Elim Pentecostal Church and then an accredited minister in the Free Methodist Church of North America. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Theology in 1998 through Regents Theological College and Manchester University and the degrees of Master of Religious Arts in Applied Theology and Doctor of Sacred Literature in 2006 from the Logos Christian Graduate College.
On 5 April 2009 Anthony was ordained into the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches which is an Anglicanand Celtic Communion by the Most Rev. Dr. Charles Travis, Archbishop of St. Chad's in the Province of St. Peter's.
On 26 July 2009 the Church known as Wren's Chapel was re-dedicated as Wren's Cathedral and the Order of St. Leonard was established. Carr was installed as Arch presbyter and Canon to the Ordinary by the first bishop Right Revd. Dr. David E. Carr. Finally, Anthony was ordained and consecrated Bishop of Wren's Cathedral and Suffragan Bishop of Wroxall Abbey on 20 June 2010.