Jonathan Boardman (born 1963) is a British

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priest. He was Archdeacon of Italy and Malta from 2009 to 2016. Boardman 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 ...

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and Westcott House Cambridge. After a

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at St Mary's Church, West Derby, Liverpool he was Rector of

Catford Catford is a district in south east London, England, and the administrative centre of the London Borough of Lewisham. It is southwest of Lewisham itself, mostly in the Rushey Green (ward), Rushey Green and Catford South Ward (electoral subdivi ...

and

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Lewisham Lewisham ( ) is an area of southeast London, England, south of Charing Cross. It is the principal area of the London Borough of Lewisham, and was within the Historic counties of England, historic county of Kent until 1889. It is identified in ...

. In 1999 he went to minister at

All Saints' Church, Rome All Saints' Church is an active English-speaking chaplaincy of the Church of England's Diocese in Europe - a part of the Anglican Communion - in Rome, Italy. The church building is a Gothic revival red-brick construction, situated in the Via del B ...

; and a year later became a

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at the

Anglican Centre in Rome Anglican Centre in Rome is an ecumenical organisation that is dedicated to improving relations between the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church. It was founded in 1966 with the encouragement of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, ...

. Boardman was an occasional diarist for the

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Since 2018 he has been

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St Paul's Church, Clapham St Paul's Church is a Church of England parish church in Clapham, London. There has been a church on the site since the 12th century. The current building was completed in 1815 and is Grade II* listed. In the grounds, which hold the Green Flag Awa ...

. His book ''Rome, A Cultural and Literary History'', with a foreword by Lisa St Aubin de Terán was published by

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(Revised Second Edition 2006) .

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1963 births Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Alumni of Westcott House, Cambridge Archdeacons of Italy and Malta Living people 20th-century English Anglican priests 21st-century Maltese Anglican priests {{ChurchofEngland-archdeacon-stub