Bertrand Maurice Daniel Olivier (born 1962) is a French-born British Anglican priest. Since 2018, he has served as

Dean of Montreal The Dean of Montreal is an Anglican dean in the Anglican Diocese of Montreal of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada The Ecclesiastical Province of Canada, founded in 1860, forms one of four ecclesiastical provinces in the Anglican Church of Can ...

and

Rector Rector (Latin for the member of a vessel's crew who steers) may refer to: Style or title *Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations *Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...

of Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal in the Diocese of Montreal of the Anglican Church of Canada. He was previously a parish priest in the

Diocese of Southwark The Diocese of Southwark is one of the 42 dioceses of the Church of England, part of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The diocese forms part of the Province of Canterbury in England. It was created on 1 May 1905 from part of the ancient Dio ...

(1996–2005) and then

Vicar A vicar (; Latin: '' vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English pre ...

All Hallows-by-the-Tower All Hallows-by-the-Tower, at one time dedicated jointly to All Hallows (All Saints) and the Virgin Mary and sometimes known as All Hallows Barking, is an ancient Anglican church on Byward Street in the City of London, overlooking the Tower of ...

(2005–2018) in the Diocese of London, both of the

Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britai ...

Personal life

Olivier is gay. He is in a

civil partnership A civil union (also known as a civil partnership) is a legally recognized arrangement similar to marriage, created primarily as a means to provide recognition in law for same-sex couples. Civil unions grant some or all of the rights of marriage ...

with Paul, an IT worker.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Olivier, Bertrand Maurice Daniel 1962 births Living people 20th-century English Anglican priests 21st-century Canadian Anglican priests French emigrants to the United Kingdom LGBT Anglican clergy Deans of Montreal 21st-century British LGBT people