St. James Anglican Church Kingston

The Rev. Thomas Decker is an Anglican priest serving as a military chaplain currently assigned to the Canadian Forces Base Kingston, Ontario. Before joining the Anglican Military Ordinariate, he served as a priest in the Diocese of Niagara. He has earned two graduate degrees (M.A. phil. and M.Div.) from the University of Vienna, Austria, and has engaged in doctoral level studies at the University of Vienna, the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto, and the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations in the University of Toronto. He specializes in Old Testament Studies with a research focus on the Book of Job and the emergence of the Joban genre in Mesopotamia and Egypt.