Staff and Leadership

Please find below an introduction to our church leaders and staff members.


Revd Dr. John Walker Dover Team Rector		Revd Josias de Souza Mission Priest
John came to faith in 1977 and was ordained priest ten years later and has served churches in the Diocese of Salisbury, Llandaff and Manchester before moving to West Kent in 2007 and then Dover in 2015. He wants to see people become spiritually fruitful and discover their own unique gifts and ministries. John is married to Canon Jocelyn Walker, Canterbury Diocesan Director of Ordinands and Vocations Advisor. He has five grown up children, six grandchildren — and two wayward Dalmatians. John has overall oversight of the Dover Town Team of Churches but also has particular pastoral responsibility for St Mary’s.		Josias joined the Dover Town Team from the Diocese of Recife in Brazil. Ordained in 2004, he served as minister in charge of children’s and youth ministry in a large city church in which he saw a group of 10 teenagers grow to some 300 every Sunday evening. He then served on the staff of Recife Cathedral implementing strategy and developing new mission projects. He is accompanied by his wife Danielle and their children Daniel and Leticia. Josias oversees mission and evangelism throughout the Dover Town Team of Churches but also has particular pastoral responsibility for a new afternoon congregation.


Revd Canon Joss Walker		Revd Sean Sheffield Assistant Curate
Joss was ordained in Manchester Diocese where she also served as a Chaplain in a large teaching hospital. She was priest-in-charge of St Martin's Maidstone for seven hugely enjoyable years before beginning her work for Canterbury Diocese, helping people to explore God's call and follow where he might be leading. You'll usually find her in Dover on Sundays, leading a service in one of the Benefice Churches, most particularly at St Peter & St Paul where she has pastoral responsibility for the Sunday morning congregations		Sean joined the team in 2017, and was ordained Priest in 2018 as he continues his training to be a Vicar, having spent time at Trinity College, Bristol. Before he felt called to ministry he managed the UK and European Call Centres for a premium audio brand and enjoyed building teams that had a community feel within them. Sean is married to Ruth, has 2 children and a wonderfully crazy Dalmatian called Angel. He is a cycling enthusiast, although doesn't get out and about as much as he would like which is in part due to the massive hills surrounding Dover!

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