enthroned predecessor children title other_post profession article_title diocese name alma_mater
2005 jonathan bailey two daughters ; elizabeth and zoë bishop of derby bishop of grantham lecturer , writer alastair redfern
 diocese of derby alastair redfern christ church , oxford
alastair redfern

alastair llewellyn john redfern -lrb- born 1 september 1948 -rrb- is the current bishop of derby in the church of england .
redfern was educated at christ church , oxford .
he was ordained in 1976 and was a curate in wolverhampton .
he then became a lecturer and later vice principal of ripon college cuddesdon .
from 1987 to 1997 he was the canon theologian of bristol cathedral before his ordination to the episcopate as suffragan bishop of grantham .
in 2005 he was translated to be the bishop of derby .
redfern received a doctor of philosophy degree in 2001 .
