Trevor Alan John Reader is a retired

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priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particu ...

: he was

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from 2006 until 2013. Born in Pembrokeshire, Wales on 3 August 1946, he was educated at

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. He was a

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then a

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there until 1986; after which he studied for

ordination Ordination is the process by which individuals are Consecration, consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorization, authorized (usually by the religious denomination, denominational ...

at Salisbury and Wells Theological College. He was an

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at St Mary, Alverstoke from 1986 to 1989 and then

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at St Mary, Hook-with-Warsash until 1998. He was

of Holy Trinity,

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, with St Michael and all Angels, Chalton with St Hubert, Idsworth and

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Director of Non-Stipendiary

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until 2003 when he became

of the

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, a post he held until his appointment to Portsdown. He retired in January 2013. He is married to Lynne and has 6 daughters.

Notes

1946 births People associated with the University of Portsmouth Archdeacons of the Isle of Wight Archdeacons of Portsdown Living people {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub English Anglican priests 21st-century English Anglican priests People from Pembrokeshire People educated at Salisbury Cathedral School