Rectors

The Revd Canon Dr Stephen Evans was ordained Deacon by the Rt Revd George Sessford, Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness in his Cathedral Church of St Andrew in June 1986 and Priest by Bishop Sessford in his Cathedral Church in March 1987.

Prior to ordination Stephen served as a Seaman Officer in the Royal Navy serving in HMS AVELEY, HMS ARGONAUT and HMS GALATEA before reading Theology at the University of Oxford and undertaking postgraduate studies at the University of Aberdeen. The University of Aberdeen awarded Stephen the degree Doctor Honoris Causa in 2017.

Alongside being the Rector of St Marylebone, Stephen is Patron of the Kurdish Aid Foundation and led a delegation to Iraq in 2012. Stephen is Vice-Chair of The St Marylebone School and The St Marylebone Bridge School (the Church of England’s only Free Special School Academy) opened in 2012), a member of the Ward Policing Panel and is a founding member and Director of the Marylebone Business and Neighbourhood Forum.

Stephen is a member of the Marylebone Association, The St Marylebone Society, The Church Commissioners for England Pastoral Committee, Provincial Clergy Discipline Panel, Trustee of The St. Marylebone Educational Foundation, Chair of the Trustees of the St Marylebone Christian Union Almshouses, a Fellow of The Woodard Corporation and Chaplain to King Edward VII’s Hospital & The London Clinic, where he also serves as a member of the Research Governance and Ethics Committee. For a number of years, Stephen has served as a Member of the External Advisory Group of Contemporary British Painters and as President of The Browning Society.

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