Giles Fraser
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The Reverend Canon Giles Fraser |
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| Priest-in-Charge at St Mary's, Newington | |
Fraser speaking at Levellers Day, Burford, in 2008
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| Church | Church of England |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Diocese | London |
| Appointed | April 2012 |
| Other posts | President of Inclusive Church |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1993 (deacon) 1994 (priest) |
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| Birth name | Giles Anthony Fraser |
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27 November 1964 Aldershot, Hampshire, England |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Parents | Anthony and Gillian Fraser |
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| Children | Two daughters, two sons |
| Occupation | Priest, journalist, and broadcaster |
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| Alma mater | Newcastle University |
Giles Anthony Fraser (born 27 November 1964) is a Church of England priest, a journalist and a broadcaster. He is currently the parish priest at St Mary's, Newington, near the Elephant and Castle, south London, and writes a weekly Friday column for The Guardian, as well as appearing frequently on BBC Radio 4. He is a regular contributor on Thought for the Day and a panellist on The Moral Maze.
He was formerly a visiting professor in the anthropology department at the London School of Economics and was previously Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral and director of the St Paul’s Institute from 2009 until his resignation in October 2011. As Canon Chancellor, Fraser was a residentiary canon with special responsibility for contemporary ethics and engagement with the City of London as a financial centre.
Fraser's father was Jewish and his mother from a Christian background, and Fraser himself was circumcised according to Jewish tradition. He was educated at a prep school, Hollingbury Court in Sussex, where he was beaten several times a week by the headmaster for minor misdemeanors, and Uppingham, a fee-paying christian school and became a Christian. Fraser attended Newcastle University, the Church of England's clergy training Ripon College Cuddesdon, near Oxford, and the University of Lancaster where he received his PhD in 1999 for his thesis entitled: Holy Nietzsche experiments in redemption. He was ordained as a deacon in 1993 and as a priest in 1994, serving as the curate of All Saints in Streetly in Birmingham from 1993 to 1997.
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