The Very Reverend Jeffrey John was installed as the ninth Dean of Saint Albans on 2nd July 2004

Dean Jeffrey John (aged 51) took a First in Classics and Modern Languages at Hertford College Oxford in 1975.  After reading Theology at St Stephen's House Oxford, he served his first Curacy at Penarth, in the diocese of Llandaff.  He returned to Oxford in 1980 to read for a doctorate in Pauline theology.  In 1984 he was appointed to a Fellowship as Dean of Divinity at Magdalen.  In 1991 he became Vicar of Holy Trinity, Eltham in Southwark Diocese.  Dean John's previous post was as Canon Chancellor and Bishop's Adviser for Ministry in the Diocese of Southwark.

Dean John's interests include learning and reading European languages.