A FOURTH generation priest the Rev Stephen Brown has been instituted at St Peter's Church, Laneside, Haslingden.
Mr Brown, 40, has moved to Rossendale after six years as Rector of the 10,000 population parish of Stanningly in Pudsey near Leeds.
He grew up in East Anglia where his father was a vicar and he attended Norwich Cathedral School.
After reading English at university and working in a bookshop, Mr Brown became an art teacher.
He said: "I became an art teacher partly because I wanted to test court what I wanted to do. I kind of felt I wanted to do something else but I wanted to think about my ordination."
Coming from a clergy family he did not want to automatically follow on from the professions of his father, grand-father and great-grandfather.
He was ordained in 1990 after training for the priesthood at Mirfield, Yorkshire.
Mr Brown enjoys drawing and photography and walking in the Yorkshire Dales.
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