Dominic Barrington

Barrington was born in 1962. He studied at Hatfield College, Durham, graduating from Durham University with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1984 and a Master of Science (MSc) degree in 1985. He trained for ordination at Ripon College Cuddesdon, an Anglican theological college, graduating from the University of Oxford with a further BA in 1994. He then spent a year studying at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, a seminary of the Episcopal Church in the United States, graduating with a Master of Theological Studies (MTS) degree in 1995. ==Ordained ministry==

Barrington was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1995 and as a priest in 1996. He served his curacy at St Mary the Virgin, Mortlake in the Diocese of Southwark between 1995 and 1998. He was installed as the 8th dean of St James Cathedral during a service on 13 September 2015. On 13 July 2022, he was announced as the next Dean of York, succeeding Jonathan Frost, thereby returning to England. ==References==