{{Short description|Welsh priest (born 1952)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}} {{Use British English|date=August 2017}} {{Portal|Christianity}} '''David Jonathan Rees Lean'''<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11254906 BBC News – Pilgrims' progress for St David shrine]</ref> (born 29 May 1952) retired as Dean of St David's in the autumn of 2017.
Lean was born in Fishguard<ref>[http://www.stdavidscathedral.org.uk/index.php?id=674 St Davids Cathedral]</ref> on 29 May 1952, educated at St David's University College, Lampeter, and the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, and ordained in 1976.<ref>''Crockford's Clerical Directory 1995'' (Lambeth, Church House {{ISBN|0-7151-8088-6}})</ref> He began his ordained ministry as a curate at Tenby after which he was vicar of the grouped parishes of Llanrhian, Llanhowell and Llanrheithan<ref>''Who's Who'' 2008: London, A & C Black {{ISBN|978-0-7136-8555-8}}</ref> and then St Martin's, Haverfordwest. From 2000 until his appointment as deanery he was a canon residentiary at St David's Cathedral.
He appeared on ITV Cymru Wales' 2014 documentary ''Wales on a Bus Pass'' with Chris Segar, meeting Segar on the bus in Solva, before alighting at Saint David's City Hall and making his way back to work at St David's Cathedral.
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