Father Jarel Robinson-Brown is Vicar of St German’s Church, Adamsdown, Cardiff. He was prior to this Assistant Curate at St Botolph-without-Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minors in the City of London. He is Visiting Scholar at Sarum College, Salisbury and Co-Chair of the LGBT+ Christian Charity OneBodyOneFaith. Jarel trained for ordination at Wesley House, Cambridge from 2010 – 2013 and served as Ordinand at Clare College, Cambridge. From 2013 – 2018 he served as Minister of St Andrew’s Methodist Church and Rumney Methodist Church in South Wales, then Minister of Trinity Methodist Church, Plumstead and Abbey Wood Methodist Church. From 2019 – 2021 he served as Associate Chaplain at King’s College London and in the Parish of Putney. In 2021 he was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon on the Feast of St Thomas and priest on the Feast of St Andrew. In September 2023, Archbishop Andrew John, Primate of Wales made Jarel Canon Preacher of St Deiniol’s Cathedral, Bangor. In November 2023 he was made MLK Fellow of Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford a post which he will hold for five years.

Currently completing doctoral work at the University of Aberdeen with the Very Revd Professor John Behr, his academic interests are in Early Christian History, Patristics, and Egyptian Late Antiquity. He is particular interested in the body, desire, gender and ethnicity in Christian Late Antiquity and has published in the areas of queer theology, liberation theology and trauma theology. His undergraduate dissertation for which he was awarded a first examined the rules of St Benedict of Nursia and John Wesley, and his graduate dissertation entitled ‘The Contours of Ante-Nicene Prayer in Origen of Alexandria’s ‘De Oratione’ involved a study of prayer in the early North African Church. He is a member of the Ecclesiastical History Society, the Society for the Study of Theology and was elected to membership of the Nikaean Club in November 2022. He is a UK citizen and a citizen of Jamaica.

In 2018, Jarel was a finalist in Sermon of the Year and is in high demand as a preacher and public speaker. He has preached and spoken at various places such as St Paul’s Cathedral, Yale Divinity School, and Oxford, Cambridge and Durham Universities. Jarel is a Benedictine Oblate of Ealing Abbey. 

He occasionally blogs at: changedfromgloryintoglory.wordpress.com