Paul Frederick Bradshaw, FRHistS (born 9 August 1945) is a British Anglican priest, theologian, historian of liturgy, and academic.
[4] In 1967, Bradshaw entered Westcott House, Cambridge, an Anglican theological college in the Liberal Anglo-Catholic tradition.
While training for ordination at Westcott House, he also undertook postgraduate research at King's College London.
[3] His doctoral thesis was titled "The Anglican Ordinal: its history and development from the Reformation to the present day".
[3] Bradshaw was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1969 and as a priest in 1970 by Michael Ramsey, the then Archbishop of Canterbury.
[1][2] From 1969 to 1971, he served his curacy at St John the Baptist, West Wickham, then in the Diocese of Canterbury.
He has collaborated with Lawrence A. Hoffman on several essay collections about the evolution of worship in Christian and Jewish communities in North America.
Having returned to parish ministry, he was also director in the St Albans diocese Ministerial Training Scheme between 1978 and 1982.
[2] On 18 May 2005, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD) degree by the General Theological Seminary, New York City.