Worship at the Abbey

The Reverend Dr Robert Reiss, Canon of Westminster

Canon Reiss has been Canon Treasurer and Almoner since 2005 and Sub-Dean since 2011. He was previously Archdeacon of Surrey in the Diocese of Guildford. While at the Abbey he has completed a PhD in ecclesiastical history, which is due to be published as ‘The Testing of Vocation: a Twentieth Century History’ later in 2012.

Prior to moving to Surrey he was for ten years Team Rector of Grantham, then a team with seven churches and five Team Vicars, a curate and several Non-Stipendiary Ministers. He therefore has extensive experience of parochial ministry and managing clergy. While at Grantham he was elected a member of the General Synod and remained on it while archdeacon, so he had almost fifteen years on the Synod.

Earlier he was Selection Secretary and then Senior Selection Secretary of the General Synod's Advisory Council for the Church's Ministry (now the Ministry Division of the Archbishop's Council) and before that was Chaplain of Trinity College, Cambridge.