The newly appointed Bishop of Peterborough trained for the ministry at Trinity College in Stoke Bishop.

The Ven Donald Allister, currently Archdeacon of Chester, is to take over the post of Bishop of Peterborough after the death of the Rt Rev Ian Cundy in May.

The Church of England's Peterborough Diocese encompasses churches in Northamptonshire, Rutland and most of Peterborough city. The 57-year-old studied medical science then theology at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, before training for the ministry at Trinity College on Stoke Hill.

He was a curate at St George's Hyde in Cheshire then St Nicholas Sevenoaks in Kent, before becoming vicar of Christ Church Birkenhead in 1983.

In 1989 he moved to be rector of St Mary's Cheadle in Cheshire, then became Archdeacon of Chester in 2002.

He said: "My chief aim is to be a bishop for all the people and parishes of the diocese.

"I also relish the opportunity given to me in this new appointment, of sharing faith with people for whom it might be a new thing and of encouraging them further along the road towards knowing God for themselves."