The Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich has just announced that the Reverend Canon Dr Frances Ward is to become the next Dean of St Eds and Ipswich Cathedral.
Currently a Residentiary Canon and Canon Theologian at Bradford Cathedral, Frances is responsible for all the worship. She has also taken a prominent role developing dialogue between the Church and the Muslim communities in that multi cultural city and is currently writing a book on the subject.
Previously she was a vicar in the Diocese of Manchester, at the other Bury in Lancashire. She has done various jobs in parishes and as an educator since she was ordained in 1989. This includes teaching for the United Reformed Church at the Northern College in Manchester.
"Suffolk holds real attractions for me," says Canon Ward. "As a child I sailed the estuaries of Suffolk and North Essex, and will relish rediscovering this beautiful part of Britain, and serving the town of Bury St Edmunds and the diocese as Dean. The Diocese and Cathedral will celebrate their centenary in 2014 and already all sorts of ideas are shaping to make that a year to remember," she says.
Frances is married to Peter, who is a Consultant Paediatrician, They have four children, and a dog called Phoebe. She will move to Suffolk in late summer and will be installed as Dean on Saturday 16 October 2010 at 2.30 p.m.
Frances is a member of WATCH and we in WATCH wish her all the very best for the future.
This means that when Frances is installed there will be FOUR women deans in the Church of England - Catherine Ogle to be installed as Dean of Birmingham this summer, with Vivienne Faull as Dean of Leicester and June Osborne as Dean of Salisbury.
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