Draft:Hayley Matthews (priest)

  • 5 March 2023 – present: Hayley Matthews[1]

Hayley Deborah Yeshua Matthews (born 1968)[2] was collated Archdeacon of Wrexham on 5 March 2023.[3] She trained for the ministry at Ridley Hall, Cambridge before receiving ordination in the Church of England:[2] she was made deacon at Petertide 2007 (1 July) — by Nicholas Reade, Bishop of Blackburn, at Blackburn Cathedral[4] — and ordained priest the following Petertide (28 June 2008) — by Geoff Pearson, Bishop of Lancaster, at Lancaster Priory (i.e. Matthews' title church). During her time in Lancaster she was Chair of Churches Together Lancaster [5], Chaplain to the Dukes Theatre [6], and Honorary Padre to the Duke of Lancaster's Regimental Association [7].[8] She served her title (curacy) at Lancaster Priory before moving to Manchester: first as Pioneer Chaplain to MediaCityUK and Honorary Chaplain to Salford University [9] and the BBC where she was a regular contributor to BBC Radio Manchester [10], then as Rector of Holy Innocents Fallowfield [11] with Birch, Honorary Chaplain to Manchester University at St Peter's House and Padre to 6MI Manchester [12]. From 2012 - 2018 Matthews served as Trustee to the William Temple Foundation, latterly as acting Chair [13] publishing the Temple Tract Grace and Power: sexuality and gender in the CHurch of England in 2015 [14]. Matthews was Director of Lay Training for Leeds diocese, Principal of Leeds School of Ministry, and an honorary canon of Ripon Cathedral prior to her archidiaconal appointment.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ "New Archdeacon of Wrexham".
  2. ^ a b c "Hayley Deborah Yeshua Matthews". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing.
  3. ^ "Wrexham welcomes new Archdeacon". Church in Wales. 6 March 2023. Archived from the original on 26 March 2023. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
  4. ^ "Petertide ordinations". Church Times. No. 7530. 6 July 2007. p. 25. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 9 August 2023 – via UK Press Online archives.
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  7. ^ [https://www.lancsregiment.co.uk/regimental-family/branch-in/
  8. ^ "Petertide ordinations". Church Times. No. 7581. 4 July 2008. p. 22. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 9 August 2023 – via UK Press Online archives.
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  14. ^ [Grace & Power: Sexuality and Gender in the Church of England (2015)]