Stephen Waine

Stephen John Waine (born May 1959) is an Anglican priest. He served as the Dean of Chichester from February 2015 until April 2023 and is Dean Emeritus of Chichester.

Waine was born in 1959, son of John Waine, later Bishop of Stafford, of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and of Chelmsford. He studied economic and social studies at the University of East Anglia and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1980. He then trained for the priesthood at Westcott House, Cambridge.

Waine was made a deacon at Petertide 1984 (1 July) by his father, the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, at St Edmundsbury Cathedral (by letters dimissory from the vacant See of Lichfield). He was ordained a Church of England priest the next year, 1985. He then served his curacy at St Peter's Church, Wolverhampton. He was Succentor at St Paul's Cathedral from 1988 to 1993. After this, he was Vicar of St Edward the Confessor Church, Romford. In 2010, he was appointed Archdeacon of Dorset.

In November 2014 it was announced that he would succeed Nicholas Frayling as Dean of Chichester. He took up the post in February 2015: he was instituted on 14 February. He left the Deanery when he was inducted as Vicar of the Piddle Valley, Hilton, Cheselbourne and Melcombe Horsey in the Diocese of Salisbury on 1 April 2023.