Jonathan Brewster (priest)

Brewster was born in 1967.[1] He studied business management at Buckinghamshire College of Education, graduating with a Higher National Diploma (HND)[2] or Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1989.[1] While at college, he was president of its Christian Union.[2] He then worked at Lloyd's of London for an underwriting syndicate.[2] From 1991 to 1994, he studied theology at trained for ordination at Trinity College, Bristol, an evangelical Anglican theological college.[1] He graduated from the University of Bristol with a BA degree in 1994.[1] He would later study systematic theology at King's College London, graduating with a Master of Arts (MA) degree in 2001.[1][2]

Brewster was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1994 and as a priest in 1995.[1] From 1994 to 1998, he served his curacy at St John's Church, Great Horton, in the Diocese of Bradford.[1][3] In 1998, he became a chaplain to the University of Westminster in London.[3] In 2003, he was appointed vicar of Christ Church with St John and St Saviour in Highbury in the Diocese of London.[4] He was additionally area dean of Islington from 2014 to 2017,[1] and acting Archdeacon of Hackney from 2015 to 2016.[5]

On 8 May 2017, it was announced that Brewster had been made a residentiary canon of St Paul's Cathedral.[6] 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.[7] As Canon Treasurer he had oversight of the building and the commercial and financial aspects of the cathedral's ministry.[5]

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.[2] On 28 June 2023, he was announced as the next Dean of Carlisle, in succession to Mark Boyling.[3][8] He was installed as the 42nd Dean of Carlisle during a service at Carlisle Cathedral on 30 September 2023.[5][9]