Peter Eagles

On 27 January 1990, Eagles was commissioned into the Royal Army Chaplains' Department of the British Army as a Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class (equivalent in rank to captain).[5] He was promoted to Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class (equivalent in rank to major) on 27 January 1998,[6] and to Chaplain to the Forces 2nd Class on 5 September 2005 (equivalent in rank to lieutenant colonel).[7] From 2007 to 2008, he was Chaplain of the Royal Military Chapel (Guards Chapel) at Wellington Barracks in London.[1]

On 28 January 2008, Eagles was promoted to Chaplain to the Forces 1st Class (equivalent in rank to colonel) and appointed an Assistant Chaplain General.[2][8] On 28 July 2011, he was collated and licensed as the Archdeacon for the Army, the most senior Anglican chaplain in the British Army, during a service at Lambeth Palace Chapel;[9] as such he is a member of the General Synod of the Church of England.[10] From 2013 to 2014, he attended the Royal College of Defence Studies to prepare for further promotion.[2] On 14 July 2014, he was appointed the Deputy Chaplain General (equivalent in rank to brigadier), thereby becoming the second most senior chaplain in the British Army.[11]

Eagles officially retired from the British Army on 6 July 2017.[12]

On 4 May 2017, it was announced that Eagles would be the next Bishop of Sodor and Man.[13][14] He was consecrated a bishop on 22 June 2017 during a service at York Minster,[15] by John Sentamu, Archbishop of York.[16] He was installed at the Cathedral Church of St German in Peel, Isle of Man on 30 September 2017.[17] As Bishop of Sodor and Man, he has an ex-officio seat on the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man which he took up upon his installation as bishop.[18]

Eagles belongs to the Anglo-Catholic wing of the Church of England.[19] Though he has a traditionalist background, due to the circumstances of the Diocese of Sodor and Man (only having one bishop), he plans to "ordain all who are called to be deacons and priests".[19][20]