Tim Barker (priest)

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Tim Barker
Dean of Guernsey
ChurchChurch of England
DioceseDiocese of Salisbury
In office2015 to present
Previous post(s)Archdeacon of Lincoln (2009–2015)
Orders
Ordination1981
Personal details
Born (1956-08-18) 18 August 1956 (age 68)
DenominationAnglicanism

Timothy Reed Barker (born 18 August 1956) is a British Anglican priest. Since 2015, he has served as the Dean of Guernsey. From 2009 to 2015, he was the Archdeacon of Lincoln in the Diocese of Lincoln.[1]

Early life and education

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Tim Barker was born on 18 August 1956.[2] He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, Queens' College, Cambridge and Westcott House, Cambridge.

Ordained ministry

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He was ordained in 1981.[3] After a curacy in Nantwich he was Vicar of Norton from 1983 to 1988; and then Runcorn until 1994. He was Chaplain to the Bishop of Chester from 1994 to 1998. In that year he became Vicar of Spalding, a post he held for 9 years.[4]

Tim Barker became Dean of Guernsey at the end of November 2015.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Diocesan web-site Archived 2012-01-04 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Find the best
  3. ^ Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) ISBN 0-7151-8088-6
  4. ^ ‘BARKER, Ven. Timothy Reed’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2013; online edn, Dec 2013 accessed 17 Oct 2014
  5. ^ Diocese of Lincoln — The Archdeacon of Lincoln is to become the Dean of Guernsey Archived 2015-09-09 at the Wayback Machine (Accessed 4 September 2015)
Church of England titles
Preceded by Archdeacon of Lincoln
2009 to 2015
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Paul Mellor
Dean of Guernsey
2015 to present
Incumbent