Robert Miller (priest)

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Robert Stephen Miller
Archdeacon of Derry
Assumed office
2012
Personal details
Born1971
Alma mater Queen's University, Belfast; Church of Ireland Theological College

Robert Stephen Miller (born August 1971 [1] ) is a Church of Ireland priest. [2]

Miller was educated at Queen's University Belfast and the Church of Ireland Theological College; and ordained in 1996. After a curacy at Lurgan he held incumbencies at Tullylish, Maghera and Derry. Since 2012 he has been the Archdeacon of Derry and rector of the joint group of parishes of Christ church, St Peter’s, Culmore and Muff. He ministers alongside his curate of the parishes, the Reverend Canon Katherine McAteer, who is the first female ordained minister within the diocese to be appointed as a canon of the chapter of St Columb's Cathedral in its over 400 years history. [3]

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  2. "Robert Stephen Miller" . Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing . Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  3. Derry and raphoe