Michael Chandler (priest)

Michael John Chandler is an Anglican priest and author.^[1]^[2]

He was born on 27 May 1945, educated at Brasted Place College^[3] and Lincoln Theological College and ordained in 1973.^[4] He held curacies at St Dunstan’s Canterbury and then St John the Baptist, Margate. After this he was the incumbent at Newington and then Hackington. He was a Canon Residentiary at Canterbury Cathedral from 1995 to 2003 when he became Dean of Ely, a post he retired from on 30 September 2011.^[5]

References

^ Diocese of Ely website
^ Among other books he has written The Life and Work of John Mason Neale (1995), The Life and Work of Henry Parry Liddon (2000), An Introduction to the Oxford Movement (2003)
^ Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 9780713672576
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 Lambeth, Church House,1975 ISBN 0108153674
^ Daily Telegraph Issue no 48,625 (dated Friday, 30 September 2011) Clergy News p 28

Church of England titles
Preceded by Michael John Higgins	Dean of Ely 2003 &ndash 2011	Succeeded by To be announced

Deans of Ely

16th century	Robert Steward Welles • Andrew Perne • John Bell • Humphrey Tyndall

17th century	Henry Caesar Adelmare • William Fuller • William Beale • Richard Love • Henry Ferne • Edward Martin • Francis Wilford • Robert Mapletoft • John Spencer • John Lamb • John Wickart

18th century	Charles Roderick • Robert Moss • John Frankland • Peter Allix • Hugh Thomas • William Cooke • William Pearce

19th century	James Wood • George Peacock • Harvey Goodwin • Charles Merivale • Charles William Stubbs

20th century	Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick • Lionel Edward Blackburne • Cyril Patrick Hankey • Michael Sausmarez Carey • Charles Allan Shaw • William James Patterson • Michael John Higgins

21st century	Michael John Chandler

Template:Officer holders in the Diocese of Ely

The Bishop of Ely • The Bishop of Huntingdon • The Dean of Ely • The Archdeacon of Cambridge The Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Wisbech