Robert Wilkes (priest)

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The Very Rev Robert Anthony Wilkes is an eminent Anglican priest and former Dean of Birmingham Cathedral.^[1]

He was born on 2 September 1948 and educated at Pocklington School and Trinity College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1974^[2] and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Oswald, Netherton, Merseyside, after which he was its Vicar until 1981 when he became Chaplain to the Bishop of Liverpool.^[3] From 1985 to 1998 he was Regional Secretary for the CMS in Pakistan and the Middle East. In 1998 he became Team Rector for the Mossley Hill area of Liverpool. He was appointed to Dean of Birmingham Cathedral in 2006, serving for three years. He is currently Priest in charge of St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford.^[4]

Church of England titles
Preceded by Gordon Mursell	Dean of Birmingham Cathedral 2006–2009	Succeeded by Catherine Ogle

Notes

v t e Provosts and Deans of Birmingham

Provosts	Hamilton Baynes Harold Richards Michael Clarke George Sinker Basil Moss Peter Berry Gordon Mursell (became Dean)

Deans	Gordon Mursell Robert Wilkes Catherine Ogle

v t e Diocese of Birmingham

St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham Bishop's Croft, Birmingham Diocesan Office, Birmingham

Office holders	The Bishop of Birmingham, David Urquhart The Bishop suffragan of Aston, Andrew Watson AEO: Jonathan Goodall, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet The Dean of Birmingham, Catherine Ogle The Archdeacon of Birmingham, Hayward Osborne The Archdeacon of Aston, Brian Russell

Historic offices	Provost of Birmingham (1931–2000; see Dean of Birmingham)

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