Robert Gerard "Bob" Cooper (born 26 July 1968)[1] is the Dean of Guildford, an honorary canon of Durham Cathedral and a canon of Musoma Cathedral in Mara, Tanzania; he was previously Archdeacon of Sunderland from 2018.
[5] He held parish ministry positions in the former Dioceses of Ripon and Leeds and Wakefield (now the Diocese of Leeds) and was a school chaplain in Leeds before spending a year as a chaplain in a school in Essex.
He was elected to General Synod of the Church of England by the Diocese of Leeds.
[6][7][8][9]On 3 October 2024, it was announced that Cooper was to become the next Dean of Guildford on 26 January 2025; as such he is the primus inter pares (first among equals) of the clergy at Guildford Cathedral, the mother church of the Diocese of Guildford.
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