The Reverend Fr. Paul Kinsey, BTh,SSC, was appointed as Rector of the parish of All Saints’, South Lynn, in December 1999. Following his collation in January 2000, he immediately inaugurated a phase of re-ordering and restoration, which continues today.
Fr. Paul was trained at Lincoln Theological College, where he gained a degree in Theology. He returned to the Church in Wales where he gained prizes for the best Deacon and best Priest and, after spending two years as the Assistant Curate of the parish of Connah’s Quay, he was moved to the Cathedral Church of St. Asaph, where as Minor Canon, he was responsible for singing the Cathedral Services and organising the ‘day to day’ running of the Cathedral Church. Fr. Paul is particularly proud of his involvement in the arrangement and in the Service of Consecration of the present Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Reverend Father in God, the Reverend Dr. Rowan Williams, when he was consecrated to the see of Monmouth – also his participation in the enthronment of, and service to, the late Archbishop of Wales, the Most Reverend Father in God, Alwyn Rice Jones.
In 1994, he was appointed the Assistant Hospital Chaplain of the Middlesex Hospital, in central London – a post which he occupied until the death of the Chaplain in 1997, when he was appointed to the position of acting Hospital Chaplain. Following, the Hospital Trust’s re-structure of the Chaplaincy department, he became unemployed in October 1999.