The Revd Canon Hugh Wybrew

I was born and brought up in Ilford, Essex, and attended the Ilford County High School for Boys. During my two years in the RAF on National Service I learnt Russian and had my first experience of Orthodox worship. After graduating in theology at The Queen’s College, Oxford, I spent a year at the Russian Orthodox Theological Institute of St Sergius in Paris, before training for ordination at Lincoln Theological College. After a curacy in Southwark Diocese I spent a year at the Catholic University of Louvain as the Anglican Priest-Student, and then taught for six years at St Stephen’s House. There followed a two-year chaplaincy at the Church of the Resurrection in Bucharest, when I was also the Apocrisiarius of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Orthodox Patriarchs of Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia. I served as Vicar of Pinner for just over ten years, and then briefly became Secretary of the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius. I was Dean of the Anglican Cathedral in Jerusalem for three years, before returning to Oxford to be Vicar of St Mary Magdalen’s. Retired since 2004, I became Visiting Lecturer in Liturgy at St Stephen’s House in 2018.