Bob Cooper | |
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Dean of Guildford | |
Diocese | Diocese of Guildford |
In office | 2025 –present |
Predecessor | Dianna Gwilliams |
Other post(s) | Archdeacon of Sunderland (2018–2025) |
Orders | |
Ordination | 1993 (deacon) 1994 (priest) |
Personal details | |
Born | Robert Gerard Cooper 26 July 1968 |
Nationality | British |
Denomination | Anglicanism |
Spouse | Kate (m. 1991) |
Children | 4 |
Education | Blue Coat School, Oldham |
Alma mater | UCW Aberystwyth, Lincoln Theological College, University of Nottingham |
Robert Gerard "Bob" Cooper (born 26 July 1968) [1] is the Dean of Guildford, an honorary canon of Durham Cathedral and a canon of Musoma Cathedral in Mara, Tanzania; he was previously Archdeacon of Sunderland from 2018. [2] [3] [4]
He was formerly Area Dean of Pontefract and Vicar of St Giles' Church, Pontefract. [5]
He held parish ministry positions in the former Dioceses of Ripon and Leeds and Wakefield (now the Diocese of Leeds) and was a school chaplain in Leeds before spending a year as a chaplain in a school in Essex. He has been visiting Mara, Tanzania since 2000.
He was elected to General Synod of the Church of England by the Diocese of Leeds. [6] [7] [8] [9]
On 3 October 2024, it was announced that Cooper was to become the next Dean of Guildford on 26 January 2025; as such he is the primus inter pares (first among equals) of the clergy at Guildford Cathedral, the mother church of the Diocese of Guildford. [10] [11] [12]
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