Bryan Douglas Spinks FRHistS (born 23 December 1948) is Bishop F. Percy Goddard Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology at Yale Divinity School, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and Berkeley Divinity School.
[3] Spinks attended St. Chad's College at the University of Durham where he earned an honours Theology degree in 1970 (Class 2, Div.
[7] In 1978, he was successfully examined for the Durham BD on English Reformed liturgy, which was subsequently published as two books.
He has published widely on early Christian, Syrian, Anglican, Reformed, and contemporary liturgy.
In 2021, he was invited to give the Aidan Kavanagh Lecture in Liturgical Studies at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.