John Blackburn, CB, QHC (3 December 1947 – 1 October 2021) was a British Anglican priest and chaplain.
Before and after his service in the British Army, he was a parish priest in the Diocese of Monmouth of the Church in Wales.
[1][2] His father served in Merchant Navy and his mother managed a tailoring shop.
[11] As the most senior Anglican chaplain in the RAChD, he was appointed the Archdeacon for the Army in the Church of England in 1999.
[1] His greatest achievement as chaplain general was to turn the department into a true ecumenical partnership, with all denominations under one administrative authority: the Creedy Report of 1921 had suggested such a union but the Catholic Church had resisted and so there had been two divisions in the department, one Catholic and one Protestant.
[3] From 2004 to 2013, he was Vicar of St Mary's Church, Risca; this was the same parish where he had served his curacy three decades earlier.
[3] In 1970, Blackburn married Anne Elisabeth Woodcock at Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas, Liverpool.