John Rees

John and his wife Dianne have been involved with St Michael’s for over 30 years. John was ordained in Ripon Cathedral in 1979. Together, they lived and worked in a parish in Leeds for three years, then spent several years with the Church Mission Society in West Africa. On returning to the UK in 1985, John resumed his work as a lawyer, becoming legal adviser to successive bishops of Oxford and archbishops of Canterbury until he retired in 2021. John and Dianne have two daughters, who grew up in the parish, and five grandchildren, in Oxford and London.