Harold Miller (bishop)


Harold Creeth Miller is an Irish retired Anglican bishop. He served as Bishop of Down and Dromore in the Church of Ireland. Coming from a Methodist background, he was elected bishop in 1997 and was considered to represent an evangelical position within the Church.

Ordained ministry

Miller was ordained in the Church of Ireland as a deacon in 1976 and as a priest in 1977. From 1976 to 1979, he served his curacy at Saint Nicholas' Church, Carrickfergus, Belfast, in the Diocese of Connor. He then moved to England, where he was director of extension studies and chaplain of St John's College, Nottingham between 1979 and 1984. He returned to Belfast, and was a chaplain at Queen's University Belfast from 1984 to 1989. In 1989, he returned to parish ministry having been appointed Rector of the Carrigrohane Union of Parishes in the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. He was also a Canon of Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral from 1994 to 1997.
Miller was elected Bishop of Down and Dromore on 18 February 1997. He was consecrated a bishop on 25 April 1997.
On 20 June 2019 he announced his decision to retire.
He is regarded as theologically conservative and was one of the two bishops of the Church of Ireland, with Ferran Glenfield, to attend GAFCON III, held on 17–22 June 2018, in Jerusalem.

Involvements within the Church of Ireland

  • Member of, and the
  • Chair of the and Chair of the Publications Group, soon to publish a revision of
  • Member of the Hymnal Revision Committee which produced the 2000 Hymnal
  • Words editor of the
  • Chair of ' from its inception until 2008
  • Member of the '
  • Member of the ' and the Anglicanism Working Group
  • Member of group which gave the response to the '
  • Member of group which produced the Church of Ireland Response to A Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland and also the group which produced the Church of Ireland response to ''Cohesion, Sharing and Integration''

Involvements beyond the Church of Ireland

  • President of the ' Christian youth festival
  • Board Member of '
  • Diocesan Links with in New York State, in Southern Sudan, and the, all of which he has visited
  • Has attended the two Lambeth Conferences in 1998 and 2008
  • Co–chaired AMICUM from 2009 to 2015
  • Has represented the Church of Ireland at eight of the meetings of ''The International Anglican Liturgical Commission.''

Publications

  • Co–editor of ' Collins, 1980
  • ' Grove, 1982' Grove, 1984New Ways in Worship CIEF, 1986Making an Occasion of it CIP, 1994, Columba, 2004Build your Church, Lord, D&D, 2005
  • ' Yale Institute of Sacred Music: Colloquium: Music, worship, arts, 2006Week of All Weeks, 2015
  • Editor: A&M, 2015