biography
Revd Canon Brian Mountford, Vicartelephone: 01865 279111
brian.mountford@oriel.ox.ac.uk
www.brianmountford.com
Canon Brian Mountford read theology in Newcastle upon Tyne before going to Westcott House, Cambridge, and being ordained in 1968 in St Paul's Cathedral. He served curacies at St Stephen's, Rochester Row and Christ Church, Lancaster Gate in the heady days of the late sixties. He then became Fellow and Chaplain of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge until 1978 when he was appointed Vicar of Southgate, one of the leading parishes of the liberal catholic tradition.
In 1986 he was appointed Vicar of the Unversity Church in Oxford, which combines ministry to the University, the City, and about 300,000 tourists each year. He was founding Chair of the Gatehouse Drop-in Centre, Trustee of Family Links, sometime Chair of Churches Together; he is an Honorary Canon of Christ Church Cathedral and Fellow St Hilda's College, Oxford.
He has written many books including:
- Christian Athiest ('O' Books, 2011)
- Happiness in 10 minutes ('O' Books, 2006)
- Christianity in Ten Minutes ('O' Books, 2006)
- Perfect Freedom ('O' Books, 2003)
- Changing Faces: Stories of death and Resurrection (Mowbrays 1990)
- Postcards on the Road to Heaven (SPCK 1997)
- Stars of Wonder: Christmas plays for children (Tufton Press 1997)
He has broadcast for the BBC, written for the Times and Guardian, sings tenor, plays cricket, the piano, and the fool.
He is married to Annette Mountford MBE, the Director of 'Family Links' - a national charity that promotes family nurturing with parents, in schools, and in prisons as part of the Social and Health Education curriculum.
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