Edward Dowler

{{Short description|Dean of Chichester}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Robert Edward Mackenzie Dowler''' (born 28 December 1967)<ref name="crockford">{{Crockford | forenames = Robert Edward Mackenzie | surname = Dowler | id = 15364 | accessed = 21 December 2016 }}</ref> is a British Anglican priest. Since September 2024, he has been the Dean of Chichester in the Church of England.<ref name="dean-in">{{cite web |website=Chicester Cathedral |title=Edward Dowler installed as Dean of Chichester |date=14 September 2024 |url=https://www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/news/very-reverend-dr-edward-dowler-installed-dean-chichester |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240928214237/https://www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/news/very-reverend-dr-edward-dowler-installed-dean-chichester |archive-date=28 September 2024 |access-date=4 October 2024 }}</ref>

==Early life and education== Dowler was born on 28 December 1967 in Highgate, London, England.<ref name="WW 24">{{cite web |title=Dowler, Ven. Dr (Robert) Edward (Mackenzie), (born 1967), Archdeacon of Hastings, since 2016 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U287740 |website=Who's Who 2024 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=15 May 2024 |language=en |date=1 December 2023}}</ref><ref name="Year Book">{{cite web |title=The Ven Dr (Robert) Edward Mackenzie DOWLER |url=https://www.crockford.org.uk/people/w13983/the-ven-robert-edward-mackenzie-dowler |website=The Church of England Year Book |publisher=Church House Publishing |access-date=15 May 2024}}</ref> He was educated at Harrow School, an all-boys independent boarding school in London.<ref name="WW 24" /> He studied at Christ Church, Oxford (BA, 1989), Selwyn College, Cambridge (BA, 1993), Westcott House, Cambridge and Durham University (PhD, 2007).<ref>‘DOWLER, Ven. Dr (Robert) Edward (Mackenzie)’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017</ref> His doctoral thesis was titled "Songs of love: a pastoral reading of St Augustine of Hippo's Enarrations in Psalmos", and his supervisors were Graham Gould and Carol Harrison.<ref name="thesis">{{cite thesis |last= Dowler |first= Robert Edward Mackenzie |date= 2006 |title= Songs of love: a pastoral reading of St Augustine of Hippo's Enarrations in Psalmos |degree= PhD |publisher= Durham University |url= http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1813/ |accessdate= 15 May 2024}}</ref>

Edward is married to Anna Dowler, a successful journalist for The Guardian newspaper. Together, they share two children, Eleanor and Gregory.[https://www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/news/venerable-dr-edward-dowler-appointed-dean-chichester]<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Venerable Dr Edward Dowler appointed as Dean of Chichester {{!}} Chichester Cathedral |url=https://www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/news/venerable-dr-edward-dowler-appointed-dean-chichester |access-date=2026-02-13 |website=www.chichestercathedral.org.uk |language=en}}</ref>

==Ordained ministry== Dowler was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1994 and as a priest in 1995.<ref name="crockford" /> After curacies in London including at Christ Church, Southgate he was on the staff of St Stephen's House, Oxford from 2001 until 2009; then Vicar of Clay Hill until his appointment as archdeacon.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/local/london-vicar-set-to-become-new-archdeacon-of-hastings-1-7405226 |title=Hastings Observer |access-date=2016-07-18 |archive-date=2016-05-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528215354/http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/local/london-vicar-set-to-become-new-archdeacon-of-hastings-1-7405226 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He served as the Archdeacon of Hastings in the Diocese of Chichester from 2016 until 2024;<ref name="GOV" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chichester.anglican.org/news/2016/05/27/new-archdeacon-hastings-appointed/ |title=Chichester Anglican |access-date=2016-07-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623212257/http://www.chichester.anglican.org/news/2016/05/27/new-archdeacon-hastings-appointed/ |archive-date=2016-06-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> he additionally became priest-in-charge of St John the Evangelist, Crowborough in 2020.<ref name="Crockford 24">{{Crockford | forenames = Robert Edward Mackenzie | surname = Dowler | id = 15364 | accessed = 15 May 2024 }}</ref>

On 14 May 2024, it was announced that he would be the next Dean of Chichester;<ref name="GOV">{{cite web |title=Appointment of Dean of Chichester: 14 May 2024 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/appointment-of-dean-of-chichester-14-may-2024 |website=GOV.UK |publisher=Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street |access-date=15 May 2024 |language=en |date=14 May 2024}}</ref> he was instituted on 14 September 2024.<ref>{{cite web |website=Diocese of Chicester |title=The Installation of Edward Dowler as Dean of Chichester |url=https://www.chichester.anglican.org/events/2024/09/14/installation-venerable-dr-edward-dowler-dean-chichester/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804213142/https://www.chichester.anglican.org/events/2024/09/14/installation-venerable-dr-edward-dowler-dean-chichester/ |archive-date=4 August 2024 |access-date=4 August 2024 }}</ref><ref name="dean-in" />

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