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Francis William Bridger (born 1951) is the current dean of Brechin in the Scottish Episcopal Church. [1]

He was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford and ordained in 1979. After a curacy in Islington he was a lecturer at St John's College, Nottingham from 1982 until 1990; vicar of Woodthorpe from 1990 until 1999; principal of Trinity College, Bristol from 1999 until 2005; professor at the Fuller Theological Seminary in the United States [2] from 2005; and rector of Broughty Ferry from 2012. [3]

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  1. Crockford's on-line accessed by subscription 9:34 GMT 18 June 2013
  2. Seminary web-site
  3. Diocesan web site
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