Tim Barker

Timothy Reed "Tim" Barker (born 18 August 1956) is a British Anglican priest. Since 2015, he has served as the Dean of Guernsey. From 2009 to 2015, he was the Archdeacon of Lincoln in the Diocese of Lincoln.

Barker was born on 18 August 1956. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, Queens' College, Cambridge and Westcott House, Cambridge.

He was ordained in 1981. After a curacy in Nantwich he was Vicar of Norton from 1983 to 1988; and then Runcorn until 1994. He was Chaplain to the Bishop of Chester from 1994 to 1998. In that year he became Vicar of Spalding, a post he held for 9 years.

It has been announced that Barker is to resign his archdeaconry "in the autumn" (2015) in order to become Dean of Guernsey.