Rev Alex Gordon
Greetings to you all from the far north of Scotland! So, I am Alex Gordon, and Iwas ordained in 1977 – 48 years ago, having read Pharmacy at University and, after my post-graduate year, practiced in a hospital until I went back to University and the College of the Resurrection Mirfield to train for the priesthood.
Since ordination I have served in parishes across England, Scotland and in the Diocese in Europe. I spent 17 years serving a rural parish in Sutherland, where I also was the community pharmacist covering a very large area. After that, we moved to Strasbourg where in addition to being Chaplain to S. Alban’s Anglican Church, I worked with the Conference of European Churches’ Church and Society Commission in the Council of Europe and the European Parliament. Following those years, I was appointed Provost (= English Dean) of Inverness Cathedral where I worked for ten years until my final appointment as Chaplain of Holy Trinity Geneva from which after six years I retired in 2020. We returned to Tain in the north of Scotland, in the diocese in which I have served for 27 years of my ministry. Since then I have continued to serve in the Diocese in Europe as a locum priest and as a Vocations advisor, and as an occasional stand in here in my home church.
Geraldine (who is sadly unable to come with me on this occasion to Tenerife due to various home commitments) and I have been married for 46 years. Geraldine has spent her working life in the field of tax – first with HMRC and later as a Tax Consultant for a number of Accountancy firms. We have three adult children, and six grandchildren.
I am very much looking forward to meeting you all in the very near future, worshipping with you over the coming two months, and getting to know you during what I know for you is a difficult time of transition as you begin the process of seeking a new Chaplain