Mark Williams

Mark Williams

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Biography

Canon Williams gained his ARCO at 17, going on to read music at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was Organ Scholar. He trained to be a priest at Cuddesdon in Oxford, serving a curacy in Wales before ministry in London where, as Warden of Pembroke House, he co-founded the Pembroke Academy of Music. Since 2010, he has been Vicar of St John the Divine, Kennington (said by Sir John Betjeman to be the most magnificent church in south London), where he has been instrumental in setting up a boys’ choir, a girls’ choir and a chamber choir. Father Mark was Chaplain to the Master of the Drapers’ Company in 2006-07 and was made a Canon of St Michael’s Cathedral, Asante Mampong, Ghana, in 2015.