The Right Reverend

Anne Hollinghurst
Bishop of Aston
ChurchChurch of England
DioceseDiocese of Birmingham
In office2015–present
PredecessorAndrew Watson
Other post(s)Vicar of St Peter's Church, St Albans (2010–2015)
Orders
Ordination1996 (deacon)
1997 (priest)
Consecration29 September 2015
by Justin Welby
Personal details
Born
Anne Elizabeth Bailey

(1964-03-04) 4 March 1964
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglican
Spouse
Steve Hollinghurst
​
(m. 1984)​
Alma materTrinity College, Bristol
University of Bristol
Hughes Hall, Cambridge

Anne Elizabeth Hollinghurst (born 4 March 1964) is a Church of England bishop and former youth worker. Since September 2015, she has been the Bishop of Aston, the suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Birmingham. From 2010 to 2015, she was Vicar of St Peter's Church, St Albans.

Early life

Hollinghurst was born on 4 March 1964 to William and Audrey Bailey.[1] Her childhood faith was nurtured in the Church of England in the Anglo-Catholic tradition.[2] at St Peter's Formby [3]

Her early ministry was as a youth worker in suburban Sussex at Holy Trinity Cuckfield and then in inner-city Nottingham at St Stephen's Hyson Green with St Leodegarius Basford.[2][4] She entered Trinity College, Bristol, an Open Evangelical Anglican theological college, to train for ordained ministry and graduated from the University of Bristol with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) Theology degree in 1996.[5]

Ordained ministry

Hollinghurst was ordained in the Church of England: made a deacon at Petertide 1996 (30 June) by Patrick Harris, Bishop of Southwell at Southwell Minster[6] and ordained a priest the Petertide following (28 June 1997), by Alan Morgan, Bishop of Sherwood at Christ Church, Chilwell.[7] From 1996 to 1999, she served her curacy at St Saviours in the Meadows, Nottingham.[4] She shared this curacy with her husband, Steve Hollinghurst, who is also a Church of England priest.[2] From 1999 to 2005, she was jointly the Anglican chaplain for the University of Derby and a chaplain of Derby Cathedral.[5] During this time, she also lectured on religion and gender in the Religious Studies Department of Derby University.[8]

In 2005, she moved to Manchester. She was appointed domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Manchester, Nigel McCulloch, and a residentiary canon of Manchester Cathedral.[2][4] She completed a Master of Studies (MSt) degree in Jewish Christian Relations at Hughes Hall, Cambridge in 2010.[5] Her dissertation was titled "The soul's longing for God: allegorical and symbolic readings of the Song of Songs in 12th and 13th century western Europe, and the relationship between evolving forms of Christian and Jewish mystical piety".[9] On 12 January 2010, she became Vicar of St Peter's Church, St Albans in the Diocese of St Albans.[10] In 2011, she was elected a member of the House of Clergy of the General Synod.[11]

Episcopal ministry

On 2 July 2015, Hollinghurst was announced as the next Bishop of Aston, a suffragan bishopric in the Diocese of Birmingham.[4] On 29 September 2015, she was consecrated a bishop by Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, during a service at St Paul's Cathedral, London.[12][13] She is the 10th Bishop of Aston.[2] She holds a particular brief for mission, ministry and vocations in the diocese [14] and has produced several videos on the five marks of mission [15]

As bishop she has served on the Faith and Order Commission of the Church of England and chaired the group that produced the linked resources "Calling All God's People" and "Kingdom Calling".[16]

Since 2020, she has been Bishop Visitor to the Anglican Religious Community of men and women at Mucknell Abbey.[17]

Views

In November 2023, she was one of 44 Church of England bishops who signed an open letter supporting the use of the Prayers of Love and Faith (i.e. blessings for same-sex couples) and called for "Guidance being issued without delay that includes the removal of all restrictions on clergy entering same-sex civil marriages, and on bishops ordaining and licensing such clergy".[18]

Personal life

Hollinghurst's past and present research interests include feminist theology, gender and the language of God,[19] Environmental Theology and Christian Spirituality.[20] Hollinghurst has contributed a chapter on Franciscan spirituality and nature to the book Earthed.[21]

In 1984, she married Steve Hollinghurst.[1][22] He is a priest in the Church of England who worked with the Church Army.[23]

References

  1. 1 2 "Hollinghurst, Anne Elizabeth". Who's Who. Vol. 2016 (November 2015 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 24 July 2016. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Squires, Steve (2 July 2015). "The Revd Anne Hollinghurst announced as next Bishop of Aston". The Church of England - Birmingham. Anglican Diocese of Birmingham. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  3. ↑ https://stpetersformby.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017-10-Oct-mag-for-website.pdf
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Suffragan Bishop of Aston: The Reverend Anne Hollinghurst". Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street. GOV.UK. 2 July 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 "Anne Elizabeth Hollinghurst". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  6. ↑ "Ordinations". Church Times. No. 6960. 5 July 1996. p. 18. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 7 May 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
  7. ↑ "Petertide ordinations". Church Times. No. 7012. 4 July 1997. p. 13. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 7 May 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
  8. ↑ https://www.biblesociety.org.uk/uploads/content/bible_in_transmission/files/2001_spring/BiT_Spring_2001_Hollinghurst.pdf
  9. ↑ Hollinghurst, Anne Elizabeth (1901). The soul's longing for God: allegorical and symbolic readings of the Song of Songs in 12th and 13th century western Europe, and the relationship between evolving forms of Christian and Jewish mystical piety (MSt thesis). Cambridge University. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  10. ↑ "St Peter's Welcomes New Bishop and New Vicar" (PDF). The Key. St Peter's Church, St Albans. Winter 2009. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  11. ↑ "St Albans General Synod Representatives". Governance. Diocese of St Albans. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  12. ↑ "New women bishops ordained at St Paul's Cathedral". St Paul's Cathedral. 29 September 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
  13. ↑ "St Albans Vicar to be Bishop of Aston". Diocese of St Albans. 2 July 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  14. ↑ https://www.cofebirmingham.com/bishop-of-aston
  15. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjxPNirBAR4
  16. ↑ https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/kingdom-calling-web-version.pdf
  17. ↑ Jonathan, Br (4 September 2020). "September 2020". Mucknell Abbey. Retrieved 2 November 2023. This piece of news strictly belongs in last month's mlog (monastic blog), but I didn't want it to get missed. On the 25 August Bishop Anne Hollinghurst of Aston became our new Bishop Visitor. Bishop John of Worcester, whose term as Visitor has come to an end, has been our Visitor for the last ten years. The Visitor's job is to provide oversight and support and make sure we don't go way off-piste.
  18. ↑ Martin, Francis (1 November 2023). "Don't delay guidance allowing priests to be in same-sex marriages, say 44 bishops". Church Times. Archived from the original on 2 November 2023. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  19. ↑ Hollinghurst, Anne (Spring 2001). "Unlocking Eden's barred gate - Feminism, hermeneutics and the recovery of the Bible as Scripture" (PDF). Bible Society.
  20. ↑ "Suffragan Bishop of Aston: The Reverend Anne Hollinghurst". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  21. ↑ Hollinghurst S. & Stanley B. (eds) Earthed: Christian Perspectives on Nature Connection, Mystic Christ Press 2014 http://www.mysticchrist.co.uk/blog/post/earthed_christian_perspectives_on_nature_connection
  22. ↑ "The Church of England - Birmingham". Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  23. ↑ "Hollinghurst". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 2 July 2015.

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