Canon Chris Chivers

Principal of Westcott House, Cambridge

A graduate of both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Chris has been a parish priest and area dean in London, a precentor at both St George’s Cathedral, Cape Town and Westminster Abbey, and canon chancellor of Blackburn Cathedral, where he set up the award-winning inter-religious institute, exChange, and employed the first Muslim dialogue development officer on the staff of a cathedral anywhere in the world.

Chris is the trustee of several major Anglican charities and the chair of USPG, the global Anglican mission agency. He is married with three children. 

Publications

A published poet and composer, he presents daily service regularly on BBC Radio 4, is a frequent contributor to newspapers and periodicals in the UK and also in South Africa, and the author of numerous books, the latest of which is Letters to Jonny (ISPCK 2016).

Photograph by Silas Miami