:Jonathan Lean

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David Jonathan Rees Lean[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11254906 BBC News – Pilgrims' progress for St David shrine] (born 29 May 1952) retired as Dean of St David's in the autumn of 2017.

Lean was born in Fishguard[http://www.stdavidscathedral.org.uk/index.php?id=674 St Davids Cathedral] on 29 May 1952, educated at St David's University College, Lampeter, and the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, and ordained in 1976.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1995 (Lambeth, Church House {{ISBN|0-7151-8088-6}}) He began his ordained ministry as a curate at Tenby after which he was vicar of the grouped parishes of Llanrhian, Llanhowell and LlanrheithanWho's Who 2008: London, A & C Black {{ISBN|978-0-7136-8555-8}} and then St Martin's, Haverfordwest. From 2000 until his appointment as deanery he was a canon residentiary at St David's Cathedral.

He appeared on ITV Cymru Wales' 2014 documentary Wales on a Bus Pass with Chris Segar, meeting Segar on the bus in Solva, before alighting at Saint David's City Hall and making his way back to work at St David's Cathedral.

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