THE Bishop of Blackburn, the Rt Rev Alan Chesters, has announced that he is to step down as chairman's on the Church of England's Board of Education.
He has spent the last three years guiding the church's national education policy.
Bishop Chesters, whose role included acting as the church's senior spokesman on education, will be succeeded in 2003 by the Bishop of Portsmouth, the Rt Rev Kenneth Stevenson.
The Bishop of Blackburn said: "It has been an immense privilege to have been chairman at a time when support for the church's involvement in schools has been encouraged."
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