title: Tim Barker (priest)
text: # Tim Barker (priest)
  
  Timothy Reed Barker (born 18 August 1956) is a British Anglican priest. Since 2015, he has served as the Dean of Guernsey. From 2009 to 2015, he was the Archdeacon of Lincoln in the Diocese of Lincoln.
  
  ## Early life and education
  
  Tim Barker was born on 18 August 1956. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, Queens' College, Cambridge and Westcott House, Cambridge.
  
  ## Ordained ministry
  
  He was ordained in 1981. After a curacy in Nantwich he was Vicar of Norton from 1983 to 1988; and then Runcorn until 1994. He was Chaplain to the Bishop of Chester from 1994 to 1998. In that year he became Vicar of Spalding, a post he held for 9 years.
  
  Tim Barker became Dean of Guernsey at the end of November 2015.
  
  