David Longe has been Rector of the Matlaske Benefice, a group of 7 rural parishes in North Norfolk, since 2018. Prior to ordination in 2009, David worked as a lawyer specialising in representing detained asylum applicants and Human Rights Law. From 2009 to 2015 he served in North Lambeth Parish. In 2014 he was selected, along with his wife, as a Mission Partner with the Church Mission Society, enabling him to serve as Chaplain to the Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem from 2015 to 2018. He currently chairs the Diocese of Norwich's Environmental Working Group and is Rural Dean of Holt.