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The Very Rev. James A. Diamond is a graduate of Brown University, Harvard Divinity School and the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where he was a doctoral candidate in art history. He served as curate at Trinity Church in Melrose, MA, interim at All Saints in Brookline, MA, eight years as Episcopal Chaplain and rector of the university parish at the University of Minnesota, and eighteen years as rector of Christ Church in Andover, MA. He was elected Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in June of 1999.

Dean Diamond has served on various provincial and national committees of the Episcopal Church. In Boston, he worked extensively with interfaith programs, developed intercultural exchanges with teenagers and promoted Anglo-Hispanic relations in housing and financial development. He has been a member of the visiting faculty at the College of Preachers in Washington, D.C., and was a member of class XXIV of Leadership Cincinnati. Currently, he is the president of the Community of the Cross of Nails in the North America and one of five members of Coventry Cathedral's world council on international reconciliation.

Dean Diamond has been an associate of the Community of the Resurrection, an Anglican Monastery in Yorkshire, England, since 1990. He also worked with the Jesuit communities in Boston and Cincinnati and is an Ignatian spiritual director. He had an interfaith ministry in Boston, which included a television series and interfaith pilgrimages to the Holy Land. The Diamond family spent a sabbatical in Zimbabwe in 1990.

The Dean moved to Cincinnati with his wife, Barbara, and their sons in September, 1999. Barbara Diamond is an attorney with the Knowledgeworks Foundation in Cincinnati.