John Lister

Who was John Lister?

The Very Revd John Field Lister MA was an eminent Anglican priest in the latter part of the 20th century.

Lister was educated at King's School, Worcester and Keble College, Oxford. He was ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1939 and was initially a Curate at St Nicholas Radford. After this he was Curate at St John the Baptist, Coventry and then Vicar of Brighouse. He was Archdeacon of Halifax from 1961 to 1972, when he became Provost of Wakefield – a post he held for a decade.