John Ellis (chaplain)


John Raymond Ellis is a British Anglican priest and former police officer. Since July 2018, he has been Chaplain-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch and Archdeacon for the Royal Air Force.
Ellis was born on 3 November 1963 in Malta. He was educated at Hamond's Grammar School in Swaffham, Norfolk, England: the school became a comprehensive school as Hamond's High School while he was there. He worked as a police constable with Suffolk Constabulary from 1983 to 1995.
Having trained for Holy Orders at St Stephen's House, Oxford, he was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1997 and as a priest in 1998. He worked in parish ministry in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich from 1997, before joining the Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch in 2004.