Bishop John Inge was appointed 113th Bishop of Worcester in 2007. He sits as a Lord Spiritual and is President of the Woodard Corporation. His most esoteric role is Lord High Almoner to the King, an ancient one once held by Cardinal Wolsey.  

John began his working life teaching chemistry at Lancing in 1979, something he did for seven very happy years. During that time his vocation to ordination was strengthened and he was ordained a priest in the Chapel in 1985. He was married there four years later. A big part of his heart remains at Lancing.  

He left to become Chaplain at Harrow and was then Vicar of a parish in the heart of industrial Tyneside for several years. He later moved to Ely to be a residentiary Canon and Vice-Dean at the Cathedral, before being consecrated Bishop of Huntingdon in 2003.  

John’s proudest achievement at Lancing was founding ‘The Not Very Good Club’. In order to join, people had to list three things at which they were not very good and audition in one of them. One hopeful tried to affix a poster to a wall without the use of an adhesive – and failed.  It was the most popular club in the school for a while. It staged Not Very Good Concerts, to which players were required to bring an instrument which they had never played before in their life, and numerous other not very good events, including sports fixtures and an opera which filled Great School, in which the star was a dead stag (not a real one, but Mr Nigel Brookes).  

He was one of the ‘founding fathers’ of the Malawi link. He is delighted that, unlike the ‘Not Very Good Club’, it continues.  

The most important things to him in life are love and laughter.