Patrick Mitchell (priest)

Patrick Reynolds Mitchell KCVO^[1] (17 March 1930 – 23 January 2020) was an English Anglican priest.

Life

Patrick Mitchell was born on 17 March 1930^[2] and educated at Eton, Merton College, Oxford,^[3] and Wells Theological College. Ordained in 1955 ^[4] he began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St. Mark's Church, Mansfield^[5] following which he was Priest-Vicar of Wells Cathedral.

Mitchell would go on to hold incumbencies in Milton, Portsmouth and Frome Selwood, Somerset before being appointed Dean of Wells in 1973,^[6] a position he held for 16 years; during his deanship he oversaw a major restoration of the cathedral.^[7] In 1981, he was appointed to the Cathedrals Advisory Commission for England.^[7] In 1989, he became Dean of Windsor until his retirement eight years later, when he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO).^[8]

He died in January 2020 at the age of 89.^[7][9]