| Type: | Priest |
| Honorific-Prefix: | The Venerable |
| Mike Kavanagh | |
| Chaplain-General of Prisons | |
| Church: | Church of England |
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| Term: | 13 October 2014 to 2018 |
| Predecessor: | William Noblett |
| Other Post: | Archdeacon for Prisons (2014 - 2018) |
| Ordination: | 1987 (deacon) 1988 (priest) |
| Birth Name: | Michael Lowther Kavanagh |
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| Nationality: | British |
| Religion: | Anglicanism |
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| Alma Mater: | York University College of the Resurrection |
Michael Lowther Kavanagh is a retired Church of England priest who was the Chaplain-General of Prisons (and Archdeacon of Prisons).[1]
Kavanagh was educated at the University of York and the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield.[2]
Kavanagh was ordained deacon in 1987 and priest in 1988. After curacies in Boston Spa and Clifford he was Vicar of Beverley from 1991 to 1997; serving additionally as its Rural Dean from 1995 to 1997. He was Domestic Chaplain to David Hope, Archbishop of York, from 1997 to 2005. He was a prison chaplain at Full Sutton from 2005 to 2008 and Anglican Advisor to the prison service before becoming its head in 2013. Kavanagh was formally licensed as Chaplain-General and Archdeacon for Prisons on 13 October 2014.[3] He retired in 2018.[4]
The Venerable Kavanagh married Linda Munt on 13 April 2013. She is also an Anglican priest.[5]