Gordon Reid (priest)

The Revd Canon Gordon Reid
Born	January 28, 1943(1943-01-28) Hawick, Scotland
Residence	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality	British
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Alma mater	Edinburgh University (M.A.) Keble College, Oxford University (B.A.) Cuddesdon Theological College
Occupation	Anglican priest
Employer	Saint Clement's Church, Philadelphia (Rector)
Title	Canon Emeritus of St Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta

William Gordon Reid (born January 28, 1943) is an Anglican priest and former Dean of Gibraltar and Vicar General of the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe. He was born in Hawick, Scotland and educated at Galashiels Academy in the Scottish Borders.^[1] He attended Edinburgh University where he studied French and German literature, earning a M.A. in 1963.^[2] He began his theological studies at the Scottish Episcopal Theological College in Edinburgh and went on to Keble College at Oxford University, receiving a BA in theology before completing his theological training at Cuddesdon Theological College, also in Oxford.^[2]

Reid was ordained to the priesthood in 1968 and began his ministry with a curacy at St Salvador's Edinburgh,^[3] after which he was a tutor at Salisbury Theological College. In 1972, he was named Rector of St Michael and All Saints' Edinburgh and served in that position until he was appointed Provost of Inverness Cathedral in 1984.^[4]

In 1988, Reid became a priest of the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe, the diocese of the Church of England that encompasses all of continental Europe as well as Iceland, Morocco, Turkey and parts of the former Soviet Union. After serving as Chaplain of St Nicholas' Ankara, Turkey and Chaplain of St Peter's and St Sigfrid's Stockholm, Sweden, he was appointed Vicar General of the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe in 1992 and Dean of Gibraltar in 1998.^[2] Reid was named Archdeacon of Italy and Malta in 2000 and served in that capacity until 2004, when he was appointed Rector of Saint Clement's Church, Philadelphia in the United States in 2004.^[5]

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Preceded by Arthur Wheatley	Provost of St Andrew's Cathedral, Inverness 1984 – 1988	Succeeded by Alan Avery Allen Horsley
Preceded by Brian William Horlock	Dean of Gibraltar 1998 – 2000	Succeeded by John Kenneth Robinson
Preceded by Bill Edebohls	Archdeacon of Italy and Malta 2000 – 2003	Succeeded by Arthur Siddall

References

1. ^ Who's Who2008: London, A & C Black ISBN 9780713672576
2. ^ ^{a b c} "The Clergy & Staff of Saint Clement's Church". Saint Clement's Church, Philadelphia. http://www.s-clements.org/Bios_Reid.html. Retrieved 27 July 2009. 
3. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0
4. ^ ”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000” Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
5. ^ Debrett's People of Today London,2008 Debrett's, ISBN 978-1-870520-95-9

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Name	Reid, William Gordon
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Date of birth	1943-01-28
Place of birth	Hawick, Scotland
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