Jonathan Chaffey
{{Short description|British Church of England priest}}
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| name = Jonathan Chaffey
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| title = Archdeacon of Oxford
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| diocese = Oxford
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| previous_post = Chaplain-in-Chief, RAF (2014–2018)
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| birth_name = Jonathan Paul Michael Chaffey
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|allegiance= United Kingdom
|branch= Royal Air Force
|serviceyears= 1990–2018
|rank= Air Vice-Marshal
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Jonathan Paul Michael Chaffey {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CB}} (born 1962) is a British Church of England priest and former military chaplain, who served with the Royal Air Force. He serves as Archdeacon of Oxford in the same diocese; from 2014 to 2018 he served as the Chaplain-in-Chief and head of the Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch.{{cite web|title=Chaplain-in-Chief|url=http://www.raf.mod.uk/chaplains/whoweare/biogchief.cfm|website=RAF Chaplains|publisher=Royal Air Force|accessdate=26 June 2014}} He previously served as Deputy Chaplain-in-Chief.{{cite web|title=ABRIDGED REPORT OF THE 2012 ANNUAL CONFERENCE|url=http://www.rafa.org.uk/resources/files/ABRIDGED-REPORT-OF-CONFERENCE-2012-update.pdf|publisher=THE ROYAL AIR FORCES ASSOCIATION|accessdate=26 June 2014|year=2012|archive-date=8 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808052631/http://www.rafa.org.uk/resources/files/ABRIDGED-REPORT-OF-CONFERENCE-2012-update.pdf|url-status=dead}}
Early life
Chaffey was born in 1962 in London, England.{{cite web |title=Chaffey, Ven. Jonathan Paul Michael |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-258121 |website=Who's Who 2018 |publisher=Oxford University Press |accessdate=11 November 2018 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U258121 |date=1 December 2017|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 }} He was educated at Worksop College, a private school in Worksop, Nottinghamshire.{{cite web |title=Who's Who - The Ven Jonathan Paul Michael CHAFFEY BA, MA, QHC |url=https://www.crockford.org.uk/people/w13389/the-ven-jonathan-paul-michael-chaffey |website=The Church of England Year Book |publisher=Church House Publishing |accessdate=11 November 2018}} He studied at St Chad's College, Durham, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1983. In 1984, he entered Cranmer Hall, Durham, an Anglican theological college attached to St John's College, Durham, to train for ordained ministry.{{Crockford| surname =Chaffey | forenames =Jonathan Paul Michael | id =26069 | accessed = 23 June 2018}}
Ordained ministry
Chaffey was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1987 and as a priest in 1988. Before joining the military, he served his curacy at St Stephen's Church, Gateacre in the Diocese of Liverpool.
=Military career=
On 20 May 1990, Chaffey was commissioned into the Chaplains Branch, Royal Air Force and granted the relative rank of flight lieutenant.{{London Gazette |issue=52200 |date=2 July 1990 |page=11373 |supp=y }} His first posting was to RAF Lyneham. On 20 May 1991, he was promoted to the relative rank of squadron leader.{{London Gazette |issue=52575 |date=17 June 1991 |page=9337 |supp=y }} He transferred from a short service commission to a permanent commission on 17 November 1993.{{London Gazette |issue=53614 |date=15 March 1994 |page=3998 |supp=y }} During his early career he served as a chaplain at RAF Stafford, RAF Finningley, RAF Wittering, RAF Waddington and RAF Lossiemouth. He also completed overseas deployments to RAF Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar and Gioia del Colle Air Base in Italy.
On 1 July 2003, as part of the half-yearly promotions, Chaffey was promoted to the relative rank of wing commander.{{London Gazette |issue=56992 |date=8 July 2003 |pages=8469–8471 |supp=y }} From 2004 to 2007, he served as the Staff Chaplain at Royal Air Force College Cranwell. In addition to being the senior chaplain, he also taught the Beliefs and Values Programme and the Care in Leadership Course. He was then posted to HQ Chaplaincy Services in a training role. During this time he also completed two postings to Afghanistan as part of Operation Herrick. On 1 January 2010, he was granted the relative rank of group captain.{{London Gazette |issue=59296 |date=5 January 2010 |page=58 |supp=y }} He was then appointed the Deputy Chaplain-in-Chief.{{cite news|title=Service: Royal Air Force|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/service-royal-air-force-l7dsthgp6ff|access-date=26 June 2014|work=The Times|date=19 April 2013}}
In 2013, Chaffey began his attendance of the Royal College of Defence Studies.{{cite web|title=Deputy Chaplain-in-Chief (Operations)|url=http://www.raf.mod.uk/chaplains/whoweare/biogdcc.cfm|website=RAF Chaplains|publisher=Royal Air Force|accessdate=26 June 2014}} In July 2014, he succeeded Ray Pentland as the Chaplain-in-Chief and head of the Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch.{{cite web|title=Chaplain-in-Chief|url=http://www.raf.mod.uk/chaplains/whoweare/biogchief.cfm|website=RAF Chaplains|publisher=Royal Air Force|accessdate=1 August 2014}} He was promoted to the relative rank of air vice-marshal on 25 July 2014.{{London Gazette |issue=60978 |date=2 September 2014 |page=17021 |supp=y }} Chaffey was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 2018 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette|issue=62150|date=29 December 2017|page=N3|supp=y}} He retired from the Royal Air Force in July 2018.
=Later ministry=
On 29 January 2020, it was announced that Chaffey would be the next Archdeacon of Oxford in the Diocese of Oxford: he was due to be licensed as archdeacon during a service at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford on 9 May 2020.{{cite web |last1=Buckley |first1=Steven |title=New Archdeacon of Oxford Announced |url=https://www.oxford.anglican.org/jonathan-chaffey-announced-new-archdeacon-of-oxford/ |website=Diocese of Oxford |accessdate=4 February 2020 |date=29 January 2020 |archive-date=3 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203200345/https://www.oxford.anglican.org/jonathan-chaffey-announced-new-archdeacon-of-oxford/ |url-status=dead }} But, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was instead collated online on 1 May 2020.{{cite tweet|number=1256123734500483072|user=ChChCathedralOx|title=Our prayers for Jonathan Chaffey, to be licensed (online) 10am today by @Steven_Croft as Archdeacon of Oxford @oxforddiocese. Cathedral service of welcome for Jonathan on Sun 10 May http://chch.ox.ac.uk/onlineworship |date=1 May 2020}} He has been a residentiary canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford since 2020.{{cite web |title=Chaffey, Ven. Jonathan Paul Michael, (born 1962), Archdeacon of Oxford and Residentiary Canon of Christ Church, since 2020 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U258121 |website=Who's Who 2022 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=28 August 2023 |language=en |date=1 December 2021}} He served as Interim Sub Dean of the cathedral from November 2022 to October 2023,{{cite web |date=4 January 2023 |title=Archdeacon of Oxford |url=https://www.oxford.anglican.org/archdeacon-of-oxford/ |access-date=28 August 2023 |website=oxford.anglican.org |publisher=Diocese of Oxford |language=en}} when Revd Canon Peter Moger was installed as the new sub-dean.
Personal life
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Category:20th-century English Anglican priests
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Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath
Category:Royal Air Force Chaplains-in-Chief
Category:Royal Air Force personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)