<Tr> <Th> Congregations served </Th> <Td> St Botolph's Church, Boston, Lincolnshire St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge St Mary the Virgin, Finedon </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Offices held </Th> <Td> Chaplain of the Royal Academy of Music . Chancellor of the University of Northampton since 2017 . </Td> </Tr> <P> The Reverend Richard Coles (born 26 March 1962) is an English musician, journalist and Church of England priest . Now vicar of Finedon in Northamptonshire, he is known for having been the multi-instrumentalist who partnered Jimmy Somerville in the 1980s band The Communards, which achieved three Top Ten hits, including the Number 1 record and best - selling single of 1986, a club / dance version of "Don't Leave Me This Way". He also appears frequently on radio and television as well as in newspapers . In March 2011 he became the regular host of BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live programme . </P> <P> Coles was born in Northampton, England . He was educated at the independent Wellingborough School (where he was a choirboy) and at the South Warwickshire College of Further Education (Department of Drama & the Liberal Arts) in Stratford - upon - Avon . He later attended King's College London where he studied theology from 1990 . He was awarded an MA by research from the University of Leeds in 2005 for work on the Greek text of the Epistle to the Ephesians . </P>

Vicar who used to be in the communards