Jonathan Greener

Who is Jonathan Greener?

The Very Rev. Jonathan Desmond Francis Greener, MA, is the current Dean of Wakefield and presiding dean of the Diocese of Leeds.

Greener was educated at Reigate Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge. After 5 years as Sales and Export Manager with A & M Hearing he studied for the priesthood at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield and was ordained in 1992. He was Assistant Curate at Holy Trinity with St Matthew, Southwark, while Angus Galbraith was incumbent from 1991 to 1994. During this time he organized the opening of the new Church building and community centre "St Matthew at the Elephant" by Diana, Princess of Wales, one of her final public engagements. He then became the Bishop of Truro’s Domestic Chaplain. He was Vicar of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Brighton from 1996 to 2003 when he became Archdeacon of Pontefract, a post he held until his elevation to the Deanery in 2007.

Greener appeared prominently in a BBC Four television documentary, Cathedrals, broadcast in November 2013.