John Southgate

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John Eliot Southgate (2 September 1926 – 18 December 1999){{Cite web |title=Southgate, Very Rev. John Eliot, (2 Sept. 1926–18 Dec. 1999), Dean of York, 1984–94, then Dean Emeritus |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-182029;jsessionid=3F5388818851E58CFE5ABA9A202FABA3 |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO |language=en}} was Dean of York in the Church of England; holding this post from 1984New appointments The Archdeacon of Cleveland, the Ven John Southgate, has been appointed Dean of York. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 5 Sep 1984; pg. 14; Issue 61928 until 1994 when he was succeeded by Raymond Furnell.

Southgate was educated at the City of Norwich School and received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Social Studies from Durham University in 1953{{cite journal |title=Graduates |journal=Durham Colleges Gazette, 1950-1953 |volume=4 |issue=25 |page=3}} and a Diploma of Theology (DipTh) in 1955.‘SOUTHGATE, Very Rev. John Eliot’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014]

He was ordained deacon in 1955, and priest in 1956. He served curacies at Glen Parva and Lee, south-east London He was Vicar of Plumstead from 1962 to 1966; Rector of Old Charlton from 1966 to 1972; Dean of Greenwich from 1968 to 1972; York Diocesan Secretary for Mission and Evangelism from 1972 to 1981;Vicar of Harome 1972 to 1977; and Archdeacon of Cleveland from 1974 to 1984.Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) {{ISBN|0-7151-8088-6}}

While Dean Southgate conducted the service, held in 1988, after the restoration of York Minster, which caught fire in 1984.{{Cite news |last=Whitney |first=Craig R. |last2=Times |first2=Special To the New York |date=1988-11-05 |title=York Minster Is Back to Life After '84 Fire |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/05/world/york-minster-is-back-to-life-after-84-fire.html |access-date=2022-10-07 |issn=0362-4331}} The Minster was struck by lightning four days before the retirement of the previous dean, Ronald Jasper.{{cite ODNB |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39999 |title=Jasper, Ronald Claud Dudley (1917–1990) |author=Donald Gray |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/39999 |access-date=2008-10-27}} Southgate was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of York in 1989.The University of York Honorary Graduates - 1966-2004 (2004), University of York, York, UK, viewed 2 May 2008, {{cite web|url=http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/eto/graduation/Hon%20Grads/Honorary%20Grad%20list%201966-2004.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-05-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090731041529/http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/eto/graduation/Hon%20Grads/Honorary%20Grad%20list%201966-2004.pdf |archive-date=2009-07-31 }}