John Shepherd

John Shepherd is the Emeritus Dean of Perth, Western Australia. He was previously Chaplain of Christ Church Oxford and Chaplain of the University of Western Australia. He has a doctorate in sixteenth-century theology and music from Cambridge University, a Master of Sacred Music degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York, and degrees in arts (history and philosophy) from the University of Melbourne. Whilst in New York he taught electronic composition at Hofstra University. He has served in parishes in Melbourne, Manchester, Long Island, Cambridge and Perth.

In 2019 Dr Shepherd was Interim Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome and the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Representative to the Pope and the Holy See.