David Ratcliff (priest) explained

Type:Priest
Honorific Prefix:The Venerable
David Ratcliff
Archdeacon of Scandinavia and Germany
Church:Anglican
Archdiocese:Scandinavia and Germany
Appointed:1996
Retired:2005
Predecessor:Gerald Brown
Successor:Mark Oakley
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David William Ratcliff (born 1937) is an Anglican priest and former Archdeacon of Scandinavia and Germany.

He was educated at Edinburgh Theological College and was ordained in 1963. After curacies in Croydon and Selsdon, he was Vicar of Milton Regis from 1969 to 1975. He worked in the Diocese of Canterbury's Education Department from 1975 to 1991 before serving as a chaplain in Frankfurt and Stockholm between 1991 and 2002.

He was also Archdeacon of Scandinavia and Germany from 1996 until his retirement in 2005.