Reverend Robert Stevenson

Robert currently combines three separate but related professional roles. As a Chartered Town Planner with forty years’ experience he is the senior partner of a firm of planners and surveyors. As a manager/entrepreneur he is MD of an estates management company owned by Canterbury Diocese. He is also a self-supporting priest in a team serving five rural parishes near his home town of Deal on the Kent Coast.

Following school at Dover Grammar he took a degree and postgraduate diploma in town planning at Cardiff University before serving in local government for 15 years, mostly in senior positions, including head of policy and head of development. During this time, he completed a postgraduate diploma in management and marketing.

Robert came to faith as a young adult and after many years of lay leadership in his local church in Deal he was ordained in Canterbury Cathedral in 2005. He was elected to the Archbishops’ Council and also served as Chair of the House of Clergy for the Diocese. He has related diplomas from the University of Kent and an MA in Theology from Canterbury Christ Church.

He and his wife Tessa give a high priority to family and friends and in particular their two children and three grandchildren. He also enjoys running, Pilates, oil painting and bird watching.