Gregory Venables

The Most Reverend Gregory Venables
Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Church of South America Bishop of Argentina
Venables in 2018
Church	Anglican Church of South America
Diocese	Argentina
In office	2002–2020
Predecessor	David Leake
Successor	Brian Williams
Other post(s)	Presiding bishop of the Anglican Church of South America (2001–2010, 2016–2020) Bishop of Bolivia (1995–2001)
Orders
Ordination	1985
Consecration	1993
Personal details
Born	(1949-12-06) December 6, 1949 (age 74)

Gregory James Venables (born 6 December 1949) is an English Anglican bishop. He served as the Primate of the Southern Cone in South America (now called the Anglican Church of South America) from 2001 until 2010, and again from 2016 until 2020. He was also Bishop of Argentina from 2002 to 2020.

Venables was educated at Chatham House Grammar School, Kingston University and Christ Church University College Canterbury, after which he was successively a computer systems officer and a school teacher.

Venables was ordained as a deacon in 1984 and eight months later as priest.^[1] He started his ordained ministry, serving with the Anglican Church in Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina.^[2] He was headmaster of St Andrew's College, Asuncion, Paraguay, from 1978 until 1989.

He was ordained to the episcopate in 1993 and returned to South America as Assistant Bishop of Peru and Bolivia, being consecrated the first Bishop of Bolivia in 1995.

Venables was elected Archbishop of South America for the first time in 2001, serving until 2010. He became a significant leader of the Anglican realignment during his tenure. He was once again elected at the provincial synod held in Santiago, Chile on 7–10 November 2016^[3][4]

Venables is an honorary Fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University.^[5] He is also the Patron of the Federation of Anglican Churches in the Americas.

Venables has been married to Sylvia Margaret (née Norton) since 1970 and they have one son, two daughters and eight grandchildren.