Tom Gordon (priest)

Thomas William Gordon (born 1957) is the current dean of Leighlin.

[1] He was born in Portadown, educated at the University of Ulster and ordained deacon in 1989 and priest in 1980.

[2] He began his ecclesiastical career as a minor canon at St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast.

He was the priest vicar at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin from 1996 to 2010, when he moved to Old Leighlin.

[3] In 2011, Gordon became the first cleric of the Church of Ireland to enter into a same-sex civil partnership, and this was welcomed by his community.