Francis Bridger

The Very Rev Francis William Bridger (born 1951) is the current Dean of Brechin.

He was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford and ordained in 1979. After a curacy in Islington he was a lecturer at St John's College, Nottingham from 1982 until 1990; Vicar of Woodthorpe from 1990 until 1999; Principal of Trinity College, Bristol from 1999 until 2005; Professor at the Fuller Theological Seminary in the United States from 2005; and Rector of Broughty Ferry from 2012.