THE REVEREND MARK OAKLEY Curriculum vitae APPOINTMENTS HELD 2018 – Dean of Chapel, St John’s College, University of Cambridge 2012 – 2018 Residentiary Canon and Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral, London 2010 – 2012 Residentiary Canon and Treasurer of St Paul’s Cathedral, London 2008 – 2010 Priest in Charge, , London 2005 – 2008 Archdeacon of Germany and Northern Europe 2005 – 2008 Chaplain to St Alban’s Anglican Church, , 2003 – 2005 Area Dean of Westminster 2000 – 2005 Rector of St Paul’s, Covent Garden (The Actors’ Church), London 1996 - Deputy Priest in Ordinary to HM the Queen 1996 – 2000 Chaplain to the (Lord Chartres) 1993 – 1996 Assistant Curate, St John’s Wood Church, & Chaplain to St John and Elizabeth Hospice

ADDITIONAL APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS 2017 - Visiting Scholar, Sarum College 2016 - Awarded ‘Community Volunteer Upstander Award’ in first National Hate Crime Awards 2016 - Board Member, R.S.Thomas and M.E.Eldridge Society 2015 - Visiting Lecturer, National Gallery 2015 Judge, Cranmer Awards 2014 - Trustee, Civil Liberties Trust (Liberty) 2014 - Ambassador for the Charity StopHate UK 2014 - Consultant to Virginia Theological Seminary’s project: ‘A Three Year Literary Companion to the Lectionary’ 2014 Judge, ’ 100 Best Christian Books 2014 Judge, Cranmer Awards 2013 - Patron, Tell MAMA (monitoring anti-Muslim hate crime) 2012- Visiting Lecturer, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Kings College London 2010 - Lecturer, Montgomery Trust 2011 - Trustee, King’s College Theological Trust 2011 - Bishops’ Advisor and for national Ministry Division selection panels 2011 - Chaplain, Worshipful Company of Vintners, London 2010 - Vice-President of Radius 2009 - Honorary Canon, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Brussels 2014 Lecturer and Tutor, Episcopal Church’s ‘Preaching Excellence Programme’, USA 2015 Lecturer and Tutor, Summer Preaching School, Westcott House, Cambridge 2014 – 2015 President, Shropshire Horticultural Society 2008 – 2010 Part Time Teacher, Religious Studies A-Level, Francis Holland School 2006 – 2008 Chaplain to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art 2002 – 2005 Governor, City Literary Institute (City Lit) 2002 – 2005 Governor, St Clement Danes School, London 2000 – 2005 Examining Chaplain for the Bishop of London 1996 – 2000 Lecturer, North Thames Ministerial Training Course

Curriculum vitae, Canon Mark Oakley Page 1 of 2 PUBLICATIONS 2018 (forthcoming) My Sour-Sweet Days: George Herbert’s Poems for Lent SPCK 2017 A Good Year (Ed.) SPCK 2016 The Splash of Words: Believing in Poetry Canterbury Press 2015 Readings for Funerals SPCK 2004 : Verse and Prose SPCK 2004 Readings for Weddings (reissued 2013) SPCK 2001 The Collage of God, (Republished in 2012 by Canterbury Press) DLT

2018 The Poetry and Theology of John Donne, Church Music Quarterly, June 2018 2012 -2018 Contributor to annual Reflections for Daily Prayer, Church House Publishing

2017 ‘Recent St Paul’s Commissions’, in Visualising a Sacred City: London, Art and Religion, ed. Quash, Rosen and Reddaway, I.B.Taurus

2017 ‘Shameful Persecution that Still Continues: the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Passing of the Sexual Offences Act by Parliament’, The Tablet, 2 August

2017 Preface, Responding to the Light, Michael Mayne, Canterbury Press

2015 Learning to Visit Belgium? The Need for a More Poetic Faith, Modern Believing, Vol.56, Issue 3, University of Liverpool Press

2012 Preface, Permanent, Faithful, Stable: Christian Same-Sex Marriage, , DLT

2012 Contributor to The Bible Challenge, ed.Zabriskie, Canterbury Press

2010 ‘Discovering the Spirit in the City’, in Discovering the Spirit in the City, ed. Walker and Kennedy, Continuum

2005 ‘Reclaiming faith’, in Spirituality in the City, ed. Walker, SPCK

2004 ‘The Glory of God Visible and Invisible’, in Celebrating Creation, ed. Chapman, DLT

2000 - 82 articles and book reviews in Church Times and others in Theology journal and The Tablet.

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