Stephen Waine

The Very Reverend

Stephen Waine
Dean of Chichester
DioceseDiocese of Chichester
In officeFebruary 2015 – April 2023
PredecessorNicholas Frayling
Other post(s)Archdeacon of Dorset (2010–2015)
Vicar of the Piddle Valley, Hilton, Cheselbourne and Melcombe Horsey (2023–present)
Orders
Ordination1984 (deacon)
by John Waine (deacon)
Personal details
Born
Stephen John Waine

May 1959 (age 65)
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglicanism
ParentsJohn Waine
Alma materUniversity of East Anglia

Stephen John Waine (born May 1959) is an Anglican priest. He served as the Dean of Chichester from February 2015 until April 2023 and is Dean Emeritus of Chichester.

Early life

Waine was born in 1959, son of John Waine, later Bishop of Stafford, of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and of Chelmsford.[1] He studied economic and social studies at the University of East Anglia and graduated Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1980. He then trained for the priesthood at Westcott House, Cambridge.[2]

Ordained ministry

Waine was made a deacon at Petertide 1984 (1 July) by his father, the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, at St Edmundsbury Cathedral (by letters dimissory from the vacant See of Lichfield).[3] He was ordained a Church of England priest the next year, 1985.[4] He then served his curacy at St Peter's Church, Wolverhampton.[5] He was Succentor at St Paul's Cathedral from 1988 to 1993. After this, he was Vicar of St Edward the Confessor Church, Romford. In 2010, he was appointed Archdeacon of Dorset.[6]

In November 2014 it was announced that he would succeed Nicholas Frayling as Dean of Chichester. He took up the post in February 2015:[6] he was instituted on 14 February.[7] He left the Deanery when he was inducted as Vicar of the Piddle Valley, Hilton, Cheselbourne and Melcombe Horsey in the Diocese of Salisbury[8] on 1 April 2023.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Waine, Stephen John". Who's Who. Vol. 2019 (1 December 2018 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 27 January 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ "The Ven Stephen Waine - bio". Who's Who. Diocese of Salisbury. Archived from the original (doc) on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  3. ^ "Petertide ordinations". Church Times. No. 6334. 6 July 1984. p. 4. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 22 June 2017 – via UK Press Online archives.
  4. ^ Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) ISBN 0-7151-8088-6
  5. ^ Church details Archived 2009-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ a b "Archdeacon Stephen Waine named as new Dean of Chichester". BBC News. 19 November 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  7. ^ Diocese of Chichester – Downing Street announces new Dean of Chichester Cathedral (Accessed 20 November 2014)
  8. ^ "Dean of Chichester to become priest of rural parishes in the Diocese of Salisbury". Chichester Cathedral. 18 December 2022. Archived from the original on 19 December 2022. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  9. ^ @bishopsarum (1 April 2023). "A happy day in the Piddle Valley..." (Tweet). Archived from the original on 2 May 2023 – via Twitter.


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