The Pilgrim Course Authors

Nick Baines

Nicholas Baines has been the Bishop of Leeds since June 2014. He is a former Bishop of Bradford. Baines is an experienced broadcaster, regularly appearing on Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2. While in Leicester he used to broadcast regularly on BBC Radio Leicester and Leicester Sound and twice received a commendation in the Andrew Cross Awards for religious broadcasting.
 

Stephen Conway

Stephen Conway is the Bishop of Lincoln. In 2002 he became Archdeacon of Durham and Canon Treasurer of the Cathedral. Following his consecration in June 2006, he served in the Diocese of Salisbury as Bishop of Ramsbury. He served as the Bishop of Ely from 2010 to 2023.
 

Loretta Minghella

Loretta Minghella has been the Master of Clare College Cambridge since 2021. She is a former First Estates Commissioner for the Church of England and a former Director of Christian Aid. A lawyer by training, after practising as a criminal litigator, she began a career in financial regulation. She was awarded the OBE in the New Year's Honours 2010 in recognition of her contribution.
 

Andrew Watson

Andrew Watson is the Bishop of Guildford. A former Suffragan Bishop of Aston, he has previously led churches in Redditch, Notting Hill and Twickenham. He is author of the books The Fourfold Leadership of Jesus and Confidence in the Living God.
      
Victoria Matthews

Victoria Matthews served as the Bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand. She previously served as the Bishop of Edmonton, Canada. During her episcopacy in New Zealand, she has continued to be in high demand as a retreat leader and guest lecturer. She particularly enjoys leading youth pilgrimages, and has a passion for developing young leaders in the church.
      
J John

J.John is a renowned international Christian speaker. His much-loved art of storytelling helps people to discover spiritual meaning in a way that makes sense of everyday life.
      
Lucy Winkett

Lucy Winkett is the Rector of St James Piccadilly, Diocese of London. Her books include the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2010, Our Sound is Our Wound, and she is a regular contributor to Radio 4's "Thought for the Day".
      
Alan Smith

Alan Smith is the Bishop of St Albans. Before being appointed he spent seven years as Bishop of Shrewsbury covering the north half of Shropshire. He also served in Pudsey in West Yorkshire, Linton in North Devon, Walsall and Stoke-on-Trent. He has written several books on subjects as diverse as ethnic minority religion, rural issues and leadership.
      
Joanne Grenfell

Joanne Grenfell is currently serving as Bishop of Stepney. She was previously Archdeacon of Portsdown in the Diocese of Portsmouth. She was previously a residentiary canon in Sheffield Cathedral, and both director of ordinands and dean of women’s ministry in the Sheffield diocese. She has published in the fields of sixteenth-century literature and cultural geography, literature and theology, women’s pastoral theology, and urban ministry. She is an occasional Church Times columnist.
 

Helen-Ann Hartley

Helen-Ann Hartley is the Bishop of Newcastle. She served previously as the Bishop of Ripon and before that as the Bishop of Waikato, New Zealand. She also served her curacy as part of a rural team ministry before being appointed Director of Biblical Studies and lecturer in New Testament at Ripon College, Cuddesdon. She was formerly Dean of the College of St John the Evangelist, Auckland.
      
Emma Ineson

Emma Ineson is the Bishop of Kensington in the Diocese of London. She previously served as Bishop to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and as the Bishop of Penrith, the suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Carlisle. She was previously the Principal of Trinity College Bristol. She was ordained in 2000 having researched and taught at Birmingham University. 
      
Martin Warner

Martin Warner is the Bishop of Chichester. Previously residentiary Canon of St Paul’s Cathedral in London, he was then selected as suffragan Bishop of Whitby in the Diocese of York and has served in the parishes of the Cleveland archdeaconry. He is a regular contributor to the Church Times and has written five books.

Mary Gregory

Mary Gregory is Canon for Arts and Reconciliation at Coventry Cathedral. She is also a former Diocesan Mission Enabler in the Diocese of Leicester and a former Dean of Women’s Ministry for the Diocese of Sheffield. Before ordination, Mary worked in the Prison Service for ten years, latterly as Deputy Governor of HMP and YOI Moorland near Doncaster.

      
Graham Tomlin

Graham Tomlin is the Director of the Centre for Cultural Witness and President of St Mellitus College and a former Suffragan Bishop of Kensington in the Diocese of London. In 2005 he helped found St Paul’s Theological Centre, which is now part of St Mellitus College, where he served as Principal until 2015.
      
Martyn Snow

Martyn Snow is the Bishop of Leicester. He was born and raised in Indonesia and worked as a Vicar and youth chaplain in West Africa. His ministerial life back in the UK has been spent in Sheffield and Rotherham where he trained for his curacy, becoming a Vicar and an Area Dean before being appointed Archdeacon and then Suffragan Bishop of Tewksbury.
      
Jane Williams

Jane Williams is the McDonald Professor in Christian Theology at St Mellitus College, which she helped to found. She is also a visiting Lecturer in Theology at King’s College London, and previously taught at Trinity College Bristol. She is regularly invited to teach and speak all over the world, and is involved in promoting theological education in other parts of the Anglican Communion.

John Inge

John Inge read and then taught chemistry prior to ordination. As a priest he worked for several years in education as a chaplain before becoming vicar of an inner-city parish on Tyneside, then Canon Missioner at Ely Cathedral, Bishop of Huntingdon, and, since 2008, Bishop of Worcester.

Simon Jones

Simon Jones was appointed Dean of Lincoln in 2024. Prior to this he served as Chaplain of Merton College Oxford for 22 years.
      
John Pritchard

John Pritchard retired as Bishop of Oxford in October 2014. Previously he was Bishop of Jarrow, Archdeacon of Canterbury and Warden of Cranmer Hall, Durham. His only ambition was to be a vicar, which he was in Taunton for eight happy years.
      
Angela Tilby

Angela Tilby is a Canon Emeritus of Christ Church, Oxford and a chaplain and Honorary Canon at Portsmouth Cathedral. Prior to that she was Vice-Principal of Westcott House, Cambridge, and a senior producer at the BBC, where she made several acclaimed television programmes and series. She is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day.

Vivienne Faull

Vivienne Frances Faull is a British Anglican bishop and Lord Spiritual. Since 2018, she has served as the Bishop of Bristol. In 1985, she was the first woman to be appointed chaplain to an Oxbridge college. She was later a cathedral dean, and the only female cathedral provost in Church of England history, having served as Provost of Leicester from 2000 to 2002.
      
Rosemary Lain-Priestley

Rosemary Lain-Priestley is a priest and writer, and also advisor to the Bishop of London. She worked as Dean of Women's Ministry in the Two Cities Area before becoming an Archdeacon. She worked as an immigration adviser on marriage and asylum applications prior to serving her curacy. She then worked for seven years in the diverse community of St Martin-in-the-Fields church, London.
      
David Moxon

The Most Reverend David Moxon was until 2017 the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Representative to the Holy See and Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome. He was formerly the Bishop of Waikato, Senior Bishop of the New Zealand Dioceses, and an Archbishop of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. He was awarded a Knighthood of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2014 New Year's Honours.

Ann Morisy

Ann Morisy is a freelance community theologian and lecturer.
      
John Preston

John Preston is Diocesan Secretary for the Diocese of Chichester and a former National Stewardship Officer for the Church of England.
      
Rachel Treweek

Rachel Treweek is the Bishop of Gloucester and the Church of England's first ever female diocesan bishop. She was previously the Archdeacon of Hackney in the Diocese of London.
      
David Walker

David Walker is the Bishop of Manchester. He had previously been the Bishop of Dudley, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Worcester, from 2000 to 2013.