Mike Kavanagh

Michael Lowther Kavanagh is a Church of England priest and the Chaplain-General of Prisons.^[1]

He was educated at York University and the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield.^[2] He was ordained deacon in 1987 and priest in 1988. After a curacies in Boston Spa and Clifford he was Vicar of Beverley from 1991 to 1997; and its Rural Dean from 1995 to 1997. He was Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of York from 1997 to 2005. He was a prison chaplain at Full Sutton from 2005 to 2008 and Anglican Advisor to the prison service before becoming its head in 2013. His wife is also an Anglican priest.^[3] Kavanagh was formally licensed as Chaplain-General and Archdeacon for Prisons on 13 October 2014.^[4]

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