Michael Brotherton (priest)

John Michael Brotherton (7 December 1935 – 12 February 2025) was an English Anglican priest.

Brotherton was born on 7 December 1935 and educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and Ripon College Cuddesdon. He was ordained in 1962 and was a curate at St Nicholas' Chiswick, after which he was chaplain of Trinity College, Moka.^[1] He was rector of St Michael's Diego Martin from 1969 to 1975^[2] and then vicar of St Mary and St John's Oxford. From 1981 to 1991 he was vicar of St Mary's, Portsea, in Portsmouth.^[3] From 1991 until his retirement in 2002 he was the Archdeacon of Chichester.^[4] Brotherton died on 12 February 2025 at the age of 89.^[5]

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v t e Archdeacons of Chichester
High Medieval	Sole archdeacons: Ricoard Henry Roger Robert Senior archdeacons: Henry Seffrid II Matthew of Chichester Peter Richard Archdeacons of Chichester: Silvester William Durand William Walter John Climping John de Reigate Geoffrey de Gates Robert of Wiston
Late Medieval	Gervase of Séez Robert Leyset/de Leycester John Langley Adam de Houton Simon de Bredon Walter de Alderbury John de Sculthorpe John Pipe Robert de Walton Henry Folvyle William Wardene/Wardieu Simon Russell Lambert Threkingham John Thomas William Read Thomas Harlyng John Lindfield/Lyndefeld John Faukes William Walesby William Normanton Simon de Gredon/Gredon John Sprever John Doget Peter Huse/Husy Henry Boleyn John Coke/Cooke
Early modern	Gerard Borrett/Burrell Robert Chapel William Norbury John Worthiall Alban Langdale Richard Tremayne Thomas Spencer John Coldwell Thomas Gillingham John Langworth William Stone Henry Ball Thomas Pattenson Roger Andrewes Laurence Pay James Marsh Henry Hammond Jasper Mayne Oliver Whitby Josiah Pleydell James Barker Thomas Ball Thomas Hollingbery John Buckner
Late modern	Charles Alcock Thomas Taylor Charles Webber Henry Edward Manning James Garbett John Russell Walker Francis Mount Edward Elwes Herbert Jones Benedict Hoskyns Charles Clarke Lancelot Mason Frederick Kerr-Dineen Richard Eyre Keith Hobbs Michael Brotherton Douglas McKittrick Mark Standen & David Twinley (Acting) Luke Irvine-Capel Tom Carpenter

v t e Diocese of Chichester
Chichester Cathedral The Palace, Chichester Diocesan Church House, Hove Area scheme (1984–2013)
Office holders	Martin Warner, Bishop of Chichester Ruth Bushyager, Bishop of Horsham Will Hazlewood, Bishop of Lewes AEO: the bishop diocesan & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Edward Dowler, Dean of Chichester Martin Lloyd Williams, Archdeacon of Brighton & Lewes Angela Martin, Archdeacon of Horsham Tom Carpenter, Archdeacon of Chichester Russell Dewhurst, Archdeacon-designate of Hastings
Historic offices	Archdeacon of Hastings (1912–1975; merged back into Lewes archdeaconry)

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