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Stephen Mark Wookey (born 2 September 1954) is an English vicar who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and Oxford University.

Steve Wookey was educated at Malvern College, where he played cricket for the First XI. He went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, playing for the university team and winning his Blue in 1975 and 1976. He then went to the theological college Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, to study for the Anglican ministry. He won his Blue at Oxford in 1978, which was his most successful season, with 11 wickets at 39.18, including three wickets in an innings on three occasions and the dismissal of Geoffrey Boycott, caught and bowled for a duck. He was only the second person, after David Jarrett, to win cricket Blues at both Cambridge and Oxford. He also played a few matches for Wiltshire in the Minor Counties Championship between 1974 and 1978.

Wookey was ordained in the Church of England in 1981. He served at Christ Church in Cockfosters, London; St Michael's Church in Paris; All Souls Church, Langham Place, London; and he was the vicar at St David's Church, Moreton-in-Marsh, from 1996 to 2020. He and his wife Gillian have three children. He wrote the book When a Church Becomes a Cult: The Masks of a New Religious Movement in 1996.

References

1. Wisden 1973, pp. 855-56.
2. Alan Gibson, "Journal of the Season", The Cricketer, November 1978, p. 9.
3. Wisden 1979, pp. 612-18.
4. "Oxford University v Yorkshire 1978". Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
5. "Minor Counties Championship matches played by Stephen Wookey". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
6. "St David's Church". St David's Moreton in Marsh. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
7. "Steve Wookey". thesermon.co.uk. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
8. "Interview with Steve & Gillian Wookey". YouTube. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
9. "Cults". Theology Network. Retrieved 21 October 2015.

External links

• Stephen Wookey at Cricinfo
• "Chasing After the Wind" – a sermon by Steve Wookey on YouTube

• 1954 births
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• Cricketers from Wiltshire
• Clergy from Wiltshire
• People educated at Malvern College
• Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
• Alumni of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
• English cricketers
• Cambridge University cricketers
• Oxford University cricketers
• Wiltshire cricketers
• 20th-century English Anglican priests
• 21st-century English Anglican priests
• People from Moreton-in-Marsh
• Cricketers from Gloucestershire