John Ellis (chaplain)

Air Vice-Marshal John Raymond Ellis, CB, QHC (born 3 November 1963) is a British Anglican priest and former police officer.

He had worked as a police officer and then in parish ministry in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich from 1997, before joining the Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch in 2004.

[1] Having trained for Holy Orders at St Stephen's House, Oxford, he was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1997 and as a priest in 1998.

[2][3] From 1997 to 2000, he served his curacy in the multi-church benefice of Clare in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.

[5] In 2019, he was awarded the Royal Air Force Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.