Richard Pratt (priest)

Richard David Pratt has been the C of E Archdeacon of West Cumberland since 2009.

Pratt was born in Cheltenham and educated at Ranelagh Grammar School and Lincoln College, Oxford. and ordained in 1984. Following a curacy at All Hallows' Wellingborough he held incumbencies at St Mark’s Kingsthorpe and St Benedict’s Hunsbury before his appointment as the communications officer for the Diocese of Carlisle in 1997, a position he held until his archdeacon’s appointment.