(Philip Joseph) Griff Dines is a former Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow He was born on 22 June 1959 and educated at the

Royal Grammar School, Newcastle (By Learning, You Will Lead) , established = , closed = , type = Grammar SchoolIndependent day school , religion = , president = , head_label = Headmaster , head = Geoffrey Stanford , r_head_label = , r_head = , chair_label = , cha ...

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

and

Clare College, Cambridge Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college was founded in 1326 as University Hall, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. It was refound ...

. He was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform ...

in 1987 after a period of study at

Westcott House, Cambridge Westcott House is an Anglican theological college based on Jesus Lane in the centre of the university city of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.Westcott House website, Home pag Retrieved on August 27, 2006. Its main activity is training people for ...

. After

curacies A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish. In this sense, "curate" means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy ...

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and

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he was

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 ...

of St Martin,

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from 1991 until his

cathedral A cathedral is a church that contains the '' cathedra'' () of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denominatio ...

appointment. In 2005 he became Business Manager of the Macdonald Associates Consultancy, where he worked with David Dadswell, who is now Diocesan Secretary of the Diocese of Lincoln. Following his role as Business Manager he became a teacher of mathematics and statistics at Lincoln University Technical College in 2016. Dines was then appointed Head of the Bishop's Office by the

Bishop of Lincoln The Bishop of Lincoln is the ordinary (diocesan bishop) of the Church of England Diocese of Lincoln in the Province of Canterbury. The present diocese covers the county of Lincolnshire and the unitary authority areas of North Lincolnshire and ...

, the Right Reverend Christopher Lowson, in February 2019. He is married to his second wife, the Reverend Canon Sally-Anne McDougall who, until May 2020, was Precentor of Lincoln Cathedral and who was, until 2017, Chaplain to Christopher Lowson as

. Dines left his post at the Bishop of Lincoln's office in December 2019 and moved to Spain to resume his teaching career. Now he lives in Spain and works in Laude Newton college. He is the mathematics department boss.

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1959 births People educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne Alumni of University College London Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge Provosts of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow Scottish Episcopalian clergy Living people Alumni of Westcott House, Cambridge {{UK-Anglican-clergy-stub