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Giles Fraser
Giles Anthony Fraser (born 27 November 1964) is an English Anglican priest, journalist, and broadcaster who has served as Vicar of St Anne's Church, Kew, since 2022. He is a regular contributor to Thought for the Day and The Guardian, a panellist on Moral Maze, and an assistant editor of UnHerd.
Fraser was born to a Jewish father and a Christian mother and was circumcised according to Jewish tradition.
He was educated at Hollingbury Court preparatory school in Sussex, where he was beaten several times a week by the headmaster for minor misdemeanours, and at Uppingham School, a fee-paying Christian school, where he became a Christian. He studied at Newcastle University before training for ordained ministry at Ripon College Cuddesdon, near Oxford. He continued his studies at the University of Lancaster, where he was awarded a PhD in 1999 with a thesis entitled; Holy Nietzsche: Experiments in Redemption.
Fraser was ordained as a deacon in 1993 and as a priest in 1994, serving as curate of All Saints' Church in Streetly, Birmingham, from 1993 to 1997. From 1997 to 2006 he was a chaplain and then a lecturer in philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford.[citation needed]
In 2000 he became Team Rector of St Mary's Church, Putney, where he campaigned to raise the profile of the Putney Debates of 1647. While he was vicar there, St Mary's hosted the foundational meeting of Inclusive Church — which campaigns for all kinds of inclusion within the church — on 11 August 2003; Fraser served as its first chair of trustees until 2005.
From 2009 to 2011 he was canon chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral in London, with special responsibility for contemporary ethics and engagement with the City of London as a financial centre. In October 2011 Occupy London based its protest outside the cathedral, where Fraser said that he was happy for people to "exercise their right to protest peacefully". However, he resigned, as he could not sanction any policy of the cathedral chapter that involved using force to remove the protesters. He has said that it was "a huge matter of regret to leave" St Paul's, "but not for one moment have I thought that I did the wrong thing".
He was also a visiting Professor in the anthropology department at the London School of Economics and Director of the St Paul's Institute from 2009 to 2011.
In 2012 Fraser was appointed Priest-in-charge of St Mary's, Newington, in south London, and in 2022 he became Vicar of St Anne's Church, Kew, in south-west London.
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Giles Fraser
Giles Anthony Fraser (born 27 November 1964) is an English Anglican priest, journalist, and broadcaster who has served as Vicar of St Anne's Church, Kew, since 2022. He is a regular contributor to Thought for the Day and The Guardian, a panellist on Moral Maze, and an assistant editor of UnHerd.
Fraser was born to a Jewish father and a Christian mother and was circumcised according to Jewish tradition.
He was educated at Hollingbury Court preparatory school in Sussex, where he was beaten several times a week by the headmaster for minor misdemeanours, and at Uppingham School, a fee-paying Christian school, where he became a Christian. He studied at Newcastle University before training for ordained ministry at Ripon College Cuddesdon, near Oxford. He continued his studies at the University of Lancaster, where he was awarded a PhD in 1999 with a thesis entitled; Holy Nietzsche: Experiments in Redemption.
Fraser was ordained as a deacon in 1993 and as a priest in 1994, serving as curate of All Saints' Church in Streetly, Birmingham, from 1993 to 1997. From 1997 to 2006 he was a chaplain and then a lecturer in philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford.[citation needed]
In 2000 he became Team Rector of St Mary's Church, Putney, where he campaigned to raise the profile of the Putney Debates of 1647. While he was vicar there, St Mary's hosted the foundational meeting of Inclusive Church — which campaigns for all kinds of inclusion within the church — on 11 August 2003; Fraser served as its first chair of trustees until 2005.
From 2009 to 2011 he was canon chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral in London, with special responsibility for contemporary ethics and engagement with the City of London as a financial centre. In October 2011 Occupy London based its protest outside the cathedral, where Fraser said that he was happy for people to "exercise their right to protest peacefully". However, he resigned, as he could not sanction any policy of the cathedral chapter that involved using force to remove the protesters. He has said that it was "a huge matter of regret to leave" St Paul's, "but not for one moment have I thought that I did the wrong thing".
He was also a visiting Professor in the anthropology department at the London School of Economics and Director of the St Paul's Institute from 2009 to 2011.
In 2012 Fraser was appointed Priest-in-charge of St Mary's, Newington, in south London, and in 2022 he became Vicar of St Anne's Church, Kew, in south-west London.