Andrew Allen is Chaplain and Fellow at Exeter College, where he is also head of welfare. Andrew studied law and German law at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, but discerned a vocation to the priesthood, and retrained in theology at Ripon College, Cuddesdon. He returned to Bonn to work on a European Union project to process and define a culture of remembrance with regards to the Holocaust. For three years he was a priest in rural parishes.
Andrew’s work mainly consists of providing welfare support and overseeing the Chapel at Exeter, but his research interests lie in using liturgical practices to understand the identity of the church in the 19th and early 20th century He is currently exploring the role of translator and poet Catherine Winkworth, and to what extent her translation and introduction of German Lutheran hymns into England shaped an alternative development of the Church.
Andrew is an honorary priest in the Saxon Lutheran Church, and is a vocations advisor for the Church of England.