snow was made a deacon at petertide 1995 (2 july) by david lunn, bishop of sheffield, at sheffield cathedral and ordained a priest the petertide following (5 july 1996) by michael gear, bishop of doncaster at his title church (st andrew's, brinsworth). he was an assistant curate at brinsworth with catcliffe and treeton before service with the church mission society in guinea. he was vicar of christ church, pitsmoor from 2001 to 2010 and area dean of ecclesfield from 2007.