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Jonathan Brewster
British Anglican priest

Jonathan Brewster

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British Anglican priest
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57 years
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Trinity College, Bristol
City of Bristol, South West England, United Kingdom
King's College London
Southwark, London Borough of Southwark, United Kingdom
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Jonathan David Brewster (born 1967) is a British Anglican priest. Since September 2023, he has been Dean of Carlisle. From 2021 to 2023, Previously, he had been chaplain to the University of Westminster (1998–2003), vicar of Christ Church Highbury (2003–2017), and canon treasurer of St Paul's Cathedral in the Diocese of London (2017–2021). His final position before becoming dean was as team vicar of the Cartmel Peninsula Team Ministry in the Diocese of Carlisle.

Early life and education

Brewster was born in 1967. He studied business management at Buckinghamshire College of Education, graduating with a Higher National Diploma (HND) or Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1989. While at college, he was president of its Christian Union. He then worked at Lloyd's of London for an underwriting syndicate. From 1991 to 1994, he studied theology at trained for ordination at Trinity College, Bristol, an evangelical Anglican theological college. He graduated from the University of Bristol with a BA degree in 1994. He would later study systematic theology at King's College London, graduating with a Master of Arts (MA) degree in 2001.

Ordained ministry

Brewster was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1994 and as a priest in 1995. From 1994 to 1998, he served his curacy at St John's Church, Great Horton, in theDiocese of Bradford. In 1998, he became a chaplain to the University of Westminster in London. In 2003, he was appointed vicar of Christ Church with St John and St Saviour in Highbury in the Diocese of London. He was additionally area dean of Islington from 2014 to 2017, and acting Archdeacon of Hackney from 2015 to 2016.

On 8 May 2017, it was announced that Brewster had been made a residentiary canon of St Paul's Cathedral. He was installed as a residentiary canon and appointed canon treasurer by Pete Broadbent, acting Bishop of London, during a service at St Paul's Cathedral in July 2017. As Canon Treasurer he had oversight of the building and the commercial and financial aspects of the cathedral's ministry.

On 13 September 2021, he was appointed interim mission community leader and transitional vicar in the Cartmel Peninsula Team Ministry in the Diocese of Carlisle; he took up the post in October 2021. On 28 June 2023, he was announced as the next Dean of Carlisle, in succession to Mark Boyling. He was installed as the 42nd Dean of Carlisle during a service at Carlisle Cathedral on 30 September 2023.

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