John Beer (priest)

John Stuart Beer (born 15 March 1944^[1]) is a priest in the Church of England and former Archdeacon of Cambridge.^[2]

Beer was at Roundhay School and Pembroke College, Oxford. After working in advertising with Rowntree's in York he was ordained in 1972. He became a curate at St John the Baptist's Knaresborough and then a fellow and chaplain at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. After this he became the Rector of Toft and then the Vicar of Grantchester.^[3] He was Archdeacon of Huntingdon from 1997 until his appointment to Ely in 2004. He retired in 2014.