Clergy & Staff at Guildford Cathedral
The Very Revd Victor Stock OAM AKC FRSA
Dean of Guildford
Guildford Cathedral
dean@guildford-cathedral.org
Phone: 01483 547862
The Dean, after the Bishop, is the senior priest in the Diocese. He is a member of the Bishop’s Senior Staff Team and Chairman of the reference Group for the Board of Social Responsibility.
The Dean is a member of the Court of the University of Surrey, the Fabric Advisory Committee of Salisbury Cathedral and the Guildford Diocesan Advisory Committee.
He also relates closely to the County and Civic Communities, is an Honorary President of Guildford Choral Society, and he broadcasts regularly on BBC Southern Counties Radio.
Biography
Educated Christopher Wren School, Kings College London and St Boniface College, Warminster
VSO in Borneo
Worked in London parishes, including Resident Chaplain to London University
Rector of St Mary-le-Bow, City of London - 1986-2002
Twice Lord Mayor's Chaplain
Founder Trustee of the Globe Centre for people with HIV and AIDS in the City
Founding Director of St Mary-le-Bow's Young Homeless Project
Founder member of the Affirming Catholicism movement
Chaplain to the Order of Australia
Installed as Dean of Guildford 2002
Awarded Order of Australia Medal in 2003 for work with the Australian community in the City
Interests: Gardening, London, Travel, Politics, Broadcasting
Recent Sermons by Victor Stock
Advent Sunday 2011
Preached on 27th Nov 2011 by Victor Stock.
The Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible, leads up to and away from the Babylonian Exile, with the fall of Jerusalem in 587 BC, then the return of those… Read more
Cathedral Eucharist - 6 Nov 2011
Preached on 6th Nov 2011 by Victor Stock.
‘We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hop… Read more
All Saints Sunday
Preached on 30th Oct 2011 by Victor Stock.
‘After this I looked and saw a vast throng, which no-one could count, from every nation, of all tribes, peoples and languages, standing in fro… Read more
Gospel in the Gallery - Lecture 4
Preached on 27th Oct 2011 by Victor Stock.
The Wallace Collection Richard Wallace, Baronet, was born in 1818, an art collector known in his youth as Richard Jackson, inherited in 1870 from h… Read more
Gospel in the Gallery - Lecture 3
Preached on 20th Oct 2011 by Victor Stock.
The National Gallery opened its doors for the public for the first time on 10 May 1824. The story of its foundation is one of enlightened mind… Read more