Cliff Piper

Clifford John Piper is the current dean of Moray, Ross and Caithness, a position he has held since 2009.¹

He was born in Tintagel, Cornwall, on 8 April 1953,² educated at Aberdeen University and pursued a career in social work until the early nineties.³ After a period of study at the Theological Institute of the Scottish Episcopal Church he was ordained in 1993.⁴ He was an assistant curate at St Ninian's, Invergordon, and then priest in charge of St Andrew's, Tain. He was then a canon at St Andrew's Cathedral, Inverness from 2000 until his appointment as Dean of Moray, Ross and Caithness in 2009.