# Ken Letts

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**Kenneth John Letts** is an Australian retired priest in the [Anglican Church of Australia](/source/Anglican_Church_of_Australia). He was the [Archdeacon](/source/Archdeacon) of [France](/source/France) from 2007 to 2012.[1]

Letts was educated at the [University of Melbourne](/source/University_of_Melbourne), the [University of Leeds](/source/University_of_Leeds) and the [College of the Resurrection](/source/College_of_the_Resurrection), [Mirfield](/source/Mirfield), UK. He was ordained [deacon](/source/Deacon) in 1971 and [priest](/source/Priest) in 1972. After a [curacy](/source/Curate) at [Mount Waverley](/source/Mount_Waverley,_Victoria) in Melbourne, he was a [chaplain](/source/Chaplain) at [Melbourne Church of England Grammar School](/source/Melbourne_Church_of_England_Grammar_School). After that, he was [priest in charge](/source/Priest_in_charge) at [Albert Park](/source/Albert_Park,_Victoria) in Melbourne from 1981 to 1994 and senior chaplain at St Michael's Grammar School, St Kilda. He was then appointed as [rector](/source/Rector_(ecclesiastical)) of Holy Trinity, Nice and St Hugh's, Vence, France, in the [Diocese in Europe](/source/Diocese_in_Europe).

In 1998, he was elected as a representative for France in the [synod](/source/Synod) of the Diocese in Europe, and later appointed as the [bishop](/source/Bishop)'s Oecumenical Officer for France and Monaco, as well as a member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for France. In the new millennium, he was appointed as a [canon](/source/Canons_regular) of [Gibraltar Cathedral](/source/Cathedral_of_the_Holy_Trinity,_Gibraltar), co-president of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for France, an official member of the Conseil des Églises Chrétiennes de France and Anglican observer to the [French Bishops' Conference](/source/French_Bishops'_Conference). He then became Acting Archdeacon of France, before being appointed as archdeacon and a member of the bishop's council. In 2013, the bishop named him as a canon emeritus of Gibraltar Cathedral.

Upon his return to Australia, France honoured him by awarding him the Order of Chevalier de [l'Ordre National du Mérite](/source/Ordre_national_du_M%C3%A9rite) for his pastoral and [ecumenical](/source/Ecumenism) work during his ministry there.

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