The Venerable Canon Guy Alexander Wilkinson (born 13 January 1948) is an Anglican priest who was

Archdeacon An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denomina ...

Bradford Bradford is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in West Yorkshire, England. It became a municipal borough in 1847, received a city charter in 1897 and, since the Local Government Act 1972, 1974 reform, the city status in the United Kingdo ...

from 1999 to 2004. Wilkinson was educated at

Magdalene College, Cambridge Magdalene College ( ) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary ...

and

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

after an earlier career with the EU in 1987. Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) After a

curacy A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' () 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 who are ass ...

Wyken Wyken, a suburb of Coventry, in the county of the West Midlands, England, is situated between the areas of Stoke and Walsgrave, three miles east-northeast of Coventry city centre. The population of this Coventry Ward taken at the 2011 cens ...

he became Rector of

Ockham, Surrey Ockham ( ) is a Rural area, rural and semi-rural village in the borough of Guildford in Surrey, England. The village starts immediately east of the A3 road, A3 but the lands extend to the River Wey in the west where it has a large mill-house. O ...

and

Domestic Chaplain A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secular institution (such as a hospital, prison, military unit, intelligen ...

to the

Bishop of Guildford The Bishop of Guildford is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Guildford in the Province of Canterbury. The title had first appeared as a suffragan see in the Diocese of Winchester in 1874. The Bishop suffragan of Guildford assi ...

from 1990 to 1994. After this he was

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until his appointment to the

Diocese of Bradford The Diocese of Bradford is a former Church of England diocese within the Province of York. The diocese covered the area of the City of Bradford, Craven district, the former Sedbergh Rural District now in Cumbria and the parts of the Lancashi ...

’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 Fields
and Area Dean o
Hammersmith and Fulham
He was co-chair of th
Faiths Forum for London
until 2013; Company Secretary t
Near Neighbours
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European Council of Religious Leaders
2012- :

, 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.

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