page_title: Martyn Percy
section_title: Deanery of Christ Church
hierarchical_section_title: Martyn Percy / Ordained ministry / Deanery of Christ Church
caption_attribution_description: English: Martyn Percy speaking at Christ Church, 2016
context_page_description: Martyn William Percy is a British Anglican priest and theologian. He has been the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, since October 2014 and was previously Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford.
  Percy teaches in the Faculty of Theology and Religion, and is a fellow of the Said Business School, University of Oxford. He is also Professor of Theological Education at King's College London and has served as Professorial Research Fellow at Heythrop College, University of London. He also serves as a visiting professor of the Institute for the Study of Values at the University of Winchester, is a founding fellow of the Center for Theologically Engaged Anthropology at the University of Georgia, and has also served as an adjunct professor at Hartford Seminary, Connecticut. He is an emeritus canon of Salisbury Cathedral, having previously served as an honorary canon. He has also been an honorary canon, serving later as Canon Theologian, at Sheffield Cathedral. He became a fellow of King's College London in 2018.
  Percy's theological outlook is rooted in his long-standing commitment to middle-way Anglicanism.
context_section_description: It was announced on 7 May 2014 that Percy would become the 45th Dean of Christ Church in Oxford. He was the first dean to be democratically elected by the governing body, and was instituted to the deanery on 4 October 2014. Christ Church is the only academic institution in the world which is also a cathedral – being the seat of the Bishop of Oxford. In common with other cathedral deans, Percy, as Dean of Christ Church, is the senior priest of the Diocese of Oxford.
  Percy is also the patron of St Francis' Children's Society (an Adoption and Fostering Agency with a Roman Catholic foundation), a governor of Christ Church Cathedral School, Westminster School and St Edward's School, Oxford, a trustee of the Grubb Institute, Gladstone's Library (Harwarden) and the Li Tim-Oi Foundation.
caption: Percy speaking at Christ Church in 2016
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