Gordon McPhate

Gordon Ferguson McPhate (born 1 June 1950) is the current Dean of Chester. His retirement has been announced for 30 September 2017.

McPhate was educated at the University of Aberdeen, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, the University of Surrey and the University of Edinburgh. After a spell as a tutor in Physiology at Clare College, he was ordained in 1979. He later held lectureships at Guy’s Hospital and the University of St Andrews. He was an honorary curate at Sanderstead, then an honorary Minor Canon at Southwark Cathedral and an honorary chaplain at St Andrews, before his elevation to the Deanery.