Robin Ward

Ward was ordained deacon in 1991 and priest in 1992. He served as assistant curate of St Andrew's Romford from 1991 to 1994 and of St Andrew's and St Francis of Assisi's Willesden Green from 1994 to 1996. He was the vicar of St John the Baptist's Sevenoaks from 1996 until 2006 and the chaplain of the Invicta Community Care NHS Trust from 1997 until 2006. He was made an honorary canon of Rochester Cathedral in 2004. On 1 September 2006 he became the principal of St Stephen's House, Oxford.

Ward married Ruth in 1997. Together they have two sons.

Ward studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1987; as per tradition, his BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Oxon) degree in 1991. From 1988 to 1991, he trained for Holy Orders at St Stephen's House, Oxford. He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree from King's College London, completing it in 2003 with a doctoral thesis titled The Schism at Antioch in the Fourth Century.

Robin Ward SSC (born 1966) is a British Anglican priest. Since 2006, he has served as Principal of St Stephen's House, Oxford, an Anglo-Catholic theological college in England.