| Type: | Priest |
| Honorific Prefix: | The Very Reverend |
| Gordon McPhate | |
| Dean of Chester | |
| Church: | Church of England |
| Diocese: | Diocese of Chester |
| Term: | 2002 to 2017 |
| Predecessor: | Stephen Smalley |
| Successor: | Tim Stratford |
| Birth Date: | January df=y |
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| Religion: | Anglicanism |
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Gordon Ferguson McPhate (born 1 June 1950)[1] is an Anglican priest, who was Dean of Chester from 2002 to 2017.[2]
McPhate was educated at the University of Aberdeen, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, the University of Surrey and the University of Edinburgh.[3]
After a spell as a tutor in Physiology at Clare College, he was ordained in 1979.[4] He later held lectureships at Guy’s Hospital and the University of St Andrews.[5] He was an honorary curate at Sanderstead,[6] then an honorary Minor Canon at Southwark Cathedral[7] and an honorary chaplain at St Andrews,[8] before his appointment[9] to the Deanery.[10] He retired from full-time ministry on 30 September 2017.