Robert Breaden Explained

The Rev Canon Robert William Breaden [1] was Dean of Brechin from 1984[2] until 2007.

He was born on 7 November 1937,[3] educated at The King's Hospital and ordained in 1962.[4] He was a Curate at Broughty Ferry and then Rector of the Church of the Holy Rood, Carnoustie from 1965 to 1972. That year he returned to Broughty Ferry and also became a Canon of St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee.

Records relating to his incumbency at St Mary's are held by Archive Services at the University of Dundee, as part of the archives of the Brechin Diocese.[5]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.argyll.anglican.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/PublicationJanuary2013.pdf Diocese of Argyll and The Isles
  2. "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark p549
  3. ‘BREADEN, Very Rev. Robert William’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 19 July 2013
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 p115 London: OUP 1976
  5. Web site: BrMS 15/8/1/4. Archive Services Online Catalogue. University of Dundee. 2 August 2016.