John Kiddle (priest)

John Kiddle (born 28 June 1958) is a senior Anglican clergyman, who serves as Archdeacon of Wandsworth since 2015.

[1] Descended from a Hampshire family, Kiddle was educated at Monkton Combe School, Somerset,[2] and went up to Queens' College, Cambridge (MA 1983) before studying for the priesthood at Ridley Hall.

Ordained in 1983, after a curacy at Ormskirk, Lancashire, he held incumbencies in Huyton and then Watford, Hertfordshire.

Appointed a Canon Residentiary of St Albans Cathedral in 2010,[4] Kiddle obtained preferment in 2015 as Archdeacon of Wandsworth.

[6] Archdeacon Kiddle particularly enjoys advancing Southwark diocese's missional and pastoral work in the parishes under his jurisdiction.