John Paterson (priest)

John Thomas Farquhar Paterson (21 December 1938 – 9 September 2005) was an Anglican priest^[1] and author.^[2]

Paterson was born in Portadown, educated at Portadown College and Trinity College, Dublin.^[3] He was ordained in 1963 and his first posts were curacies in Dungannon and Dublin.^[4] After this he was successively priest in charge of St Mark's Dublin, and also assistant chaplain of Trinity College, Dublin; Vicar of St Bartholomew with Christ Church, Leeson Park, Dublin;^[5] Dean of Kildare (1974–1989); and a lecturer in pastoral liturgy at the Church of Ireland Theological College. He became Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, in 1989 a post he held for 15 years.

Notes

1. Telegraph obituary
2. Among other books he wrote “A Parish Education Handbook”, 1987; “Mary in the Church”, 1990; and “All Sorts and Conditions: a history of the laity in the Church of Ireland”, 2002 . British Library website accessed 11:01 GMT 14 August 2012
3. "Paterson, Very Rev. John Thomas Farquhar", Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 6 Aug 2012
4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
5. St Bartholomew’s