Cliff Piper

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Clifford John Piper is the current Dean of Moray, Ross and Caithness, a position he has held since 2009. [1]

He was born in Tintagel, Cornwall, on 8 April 1953, [2] educated at Aberdeen University and pursued a career in social work until the early nineties. [3] After a period of study at the Theological Institute of the Scottish Episcopal Church he was ordained in 1993. [4] He was an Assistant Curate at St Ninian's, Invergordon and then Priest in charge of St Andrew's, Tain. He was then a canon at St Andrew's Cathedral, Inverness from 2000 until his appointment as Dean of Moray, Ross and Caithness in 2009.

Notes

  1. Photo of Dean Piper
  2. Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN   978-0-7136-8555-8
  3. Robert Gordon University
  4. Crockford's (London: Church House, 1995) ISBN   0-7151-8088-6
Religious titles
Preceded by
Leonard Albert Black
Dean of Moray, Ross and Caithness
2009 to
Succeeded by
Current incumbent

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