16 Facts About Jonathan Gough

Jonathan Robin Blanning Gough was born on 1962 and is a British Anglican priest and former military chaplain.

Jonathan Gough had previously served in the Royal Army Chaplains' Department of the British Army.

Jonathan Gough was educated at Exeter School, an all-boys private school.

Jonathan Gough studied at St David's University College, University of Wales, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983.

Jonathan Gough then matriculated into St Stephen's House, Oxford, an Anglo-Catholic theological college, to train for ordination between 1983 and 1985.

Jonathan Gough continued his academic studies and graduated from Westminster College, Oxford with a Master of Theology degree in 1996.

Jonathan Gough was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1985 and as a priest in 1986.

Jonathan Gough went on to serve in the Royal Army Chaplains' Department, British Army from 1989 to 2019: between 2001 and 2005, he took a break from the military to work as the Archbishop of Canterbury's Secretary for Ecumenism.

Jonathan Gough saw active service in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan.

Jonathan Gough was chaplain to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst from 2009 to 2011.

Jonathan Gough retired from the British Army on 3 May 2019.

In December 2018, Jonathan Gough was announced as the next Archdeacon of Richmond and Craven in the Diocese of Leeds, in succession to Bev Mason.

Jonathan Gough was installed as archdeacon during a service at Ripon Cathedral on 10 March 2019.

Jonathan Gough has been warden of readers for the Diocese of Leeds since 2019.

Jonathan Gough is a member of the Society of Catholic Priests, a liberal Anglo-Catholic society of clergy.

Jonathan Gough is a member of the Society of the Resurrection, a group associated with the Community of the Resurrection.