The Reverend Mark Birch
Canon Rector and Chaplain to the Speaker
The Reverend Mark Birch was appointed Canon Rector of Westminster Abbey and Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons in November 2024.
He was previously a Minor Canon of the Abbey from January 2015, and played a significant role in the planning and rehearsal of the State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II, for which he was made Member of the Royal Victorian Order, and in the Coronation of Their Majesties The King and The Queen.
Mark came to Westminster Abbey after two years as Priest-in-Charge of the parish of St Faith, Chaplain at the Hospital of St Cross and Chaplain at Treloar College in Alton, in the Diocese of Winchester. He was previously Chaplain at Helen and Douglas House in Oxford, and before that Chaplain and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He served his curacy at the parish of Cirencester with Watermoor in the Diocese of Gloucester.
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