 He returned to parish ministry because of ill-health.Jupp was born in London and brought up in Blackheath.He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Boys' Grammar School (1968–74), St Edmund Hall, Oxford (BA Theology 1978, MA 1982), St Mary's University, Twickenham (PGCE 1996), and Chichester Theological College (1979-80).