The Venerable Canon Guy Alexander Wilkinson (born 13 January 1948) is an Anglican priest who was
Archdeacon
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of
Bradford
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from 1999 to 2004.
Wilkinson was educated at
Magdalene College, Cambridge
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and
ordained
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after an earlier career with the
EU in 1987.
[ Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) ] After a
curacy at
Wyken he became
Rector
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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
Ockham, Surrey and
Domestic Chaplain
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to the
Bishop of Guildford from 1990 to 1994. After this he was
Vicar
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of
Small Heath, Birmingham
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History
Small Heath, which has been settled and used since Roman times, sits on top of a small hill. Th ...
until his appointment to the
Diocese of Bradford
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’s senior leadership team as Archdeacon of Bradford. He moved from Bradford in 2004 to take up the post of Inter Religious Affairs Adviser to the Archbishop of Canterbury. He retired from that post in 2010 to become vicar o
St Andrew's, Fulham Fieldsand Area Dean o
Hammersmith and Fulham He was co-chair of th
Faiths Forum for Londonuntil 2013; Company Secretary t
Near Neighbours and adviser to th
European Council of Religious Leaders
2012- :
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 pref ...
, St. Andrew's Church, Fulham Fields, London.
2012- : Area Dean, Hammersmith and Fulham, London.
Awarded C.B.E. in New Year's Honours List 2012.
Notes
1948 births
Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Archdeacons of Bradford
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Living people
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