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Appointments

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04 November 2022

Interim Dean

THE Revd Simon Robinson, Vicar of Minehead, in Bath & Wells diocese, since 2015, is now Interim Dean and Canon Missioner of Truro Cathedral. He was ordained priest in 2013 and served his title in Bath & Wells diocese before taking up his incumbency.

 

ALLISON. The Revd Susan Allison, Assistant Curate of All Saints’, Newmarket, to be Priest-in-Charge of St Helen’s, Holy Trinity and St Clement with St Luke, Ipswich (St Edmundsbury & Ipswich).

ANDERSON. The Revd Graeme Anderson, Rector of Crick and Yelvertoft with Clay Coton and Lilbourne, now also Rural Dean of Brixworth (Peterborough).

BOX. The Revd Patricia Box, formerly NS Assistant Curate of Bures with Assington and Little Cornard (St Edmundsbury & Ipswich), to be Associate Priest.

COLES. The Revd Sylvia Coles, Hon. Assistant Curate of St Mary the Virgin, Northampton, to be also Hon. Assistant Curate (Assistant Priest) of the Living Brook Benefice, with special responsibility for Hardingstone (Peterborough).

COOK. The Revd Peter Cook, Priest-in-Charge of Snettisham, to be Assistant Curate (Associate Priest), remaining Rector of Docking, the Birchams, Fring, Stanhoe and Sedgeford, and Rural Dean of Heacham and Rising (Norwich).

COSSEY. The Revd David Cossey, Assistant Curate of Dersingham, Anmer, Ingoldisthorpe and Shernborne, to be Priest-in-Charge of Watton, with pastoral care of Threxton and Merton (Norwich).

HEMMING. The Revd Andrew Hemming, NS Assistant Curate (Associate Priest) of Wrington with Butcombe and Burrington, now also Rural Dean of Locking, and Bath Archdeaconry Self-Supporting Ministry Adviser (Bath & Wells).

HOBBS. The Revd Nicola Hobbs, Rector of Broughton with Cransley and Mawsley, now also Rural Dean of Kettering (Peterborough).

JACKSON. The Revd Robert Jackson, Priest-in-Charge of Whitehaven (Carlisle), to be Vicar of Irlam and of Cadishead (Manchester).

MILES. The Revd Richard Miles, Assistant Curate of the Beacon Trinity Benefice (Bath & Wells), to be Missional Priest for Youth and Young Adults.

MOWBRAY. The Revd Jill Mowbray, Barking Area CMD Adviser, and Assistant Curate (Associate Priest) of Walthamstow, now Diocesan Lead for Clergy Well-being and Ministerial Development Review Oversight in the CMD Team (Chelmsford).

PARKMAN. The Revd Christopher Parkman, formerly Assistant Curate of Holy Trinity, St Andrew the Less, and St Peter, Clifton, and of St Stephen with St James and St John the Baptist with St Michael and St George, Bristol (Bristol), to be Chaplain of St John’s, Menton, France (Europe).

SMITH. The Revd Lydia Smith, Priest-in-Charge of Hinxton, of Ickleton, and of Duxford, to be Vicar of Hinxton and of Ickleton, and Rector of Duxford (Ely).

SODADASI. The Revd Dr Anand Sodadasi, Rector of the Icknield Way Villages Benefice (Chelmsford), to be Priest-in-Charge of Westgate (Canterbury).

TANSEY. The Revd Daniel Tansey, Assistant Curate of Snettisham (Norwich), to be part-time Priest-in-Charge.

TAYLOR. The Revd Simon Taylor, NS Assistant Curate (Associate Priest) of Stapleford (Ely), to be Vicar.

WELHAM. The Revd Clare Welham, part-time Vicar of Bishop’s Sutton and Ropley and West Tisted, now also Assistant Area Dean of Alresford (Winchester).

WESTWOOD. The Revd John Westwood, formerly Rector of Rothwell with Orton and Rushton with Glendon and Pipewell and Loddington and Thorpe Malsor, now Assistant Curate (Assistant Priest) of All Saints’, Wellingborough, and of All Hallows’, Wellingborough (Peterborough).

WILKINS. The Revd Anne Wilkins, Rector of Hutton and Locking, to be also Assistant Area Dean of Locking (Bath& Wells).

YACOMENI. The Revd Thomas Yacomeni, Pioneer Minister of Lock­ing Castle Conventional District, and Rural Dean of Locking, now Rector of All Saints’, Weston, Bath, with North Stoke and Langridge (Bath & Wells).

 

WALES

MAIDMENT. The Revd Ross Maidment, Chaplain of Winchester College, and Hon. Chaplain of Winchester Cathedral (Winchester), now Team Vicar in the Mountain and Marsh Ministry Area (Monmouth), remaining Chaplain (Royal Naval Reserve).

RUSSELL. The Revd Dr Andrea Russell, Director of Formation for Ministry (Oxford), now Warden of Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden.

 

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