Peter Leonard (priest)
Peter Philip Leonard has been Archdeacon of the Isle of Wight since 2019.
Leonard was educated at Trinity College, Bristol. He was ordained deacon in 1997 and priest in 1998. He held curacies at Haslemere then Woodham. A former teacher, he was Head of School at Mill Hill Primary School in Waterlooville before resuming his ministry as a residential canon at Portsmouth Cathedral.
Leonard is in a civil partnership with his partner, Mark. Clergy in the Church of England are permitted to be in same-sex civil partnerships based on the understanding that such relationships are celibate.
