Draft:Hayley Matthews (priest)


 * 5 March 2023 – present: Hayley Matthews

Hayley Deborah Yeshua Matthews (born 1968) was collated Archdeacon of Wrexham on 5 March 2023. She trained for the ministry at Ridley Hall, Cambridge before receiving ordination in the Church of England: she was made deacon at Petertide 2007 (1 July) &mdash; by Nicholas Reade, Bishop of Blackburn, at Blackburn Cathedral &mdash; and ordained priest the following Petertide (28 June 2008) &mdash; 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, Chaplain to the Dukes Theatre , and Honorary Padre to the Duke of Lancaster's Regimental Association. She served her title (curacy) at Lancaster Priory before moving to Manchester: first as Pioneer Chaplain to MediaCityUK and Honorary Chaplain to Salford University and the BBC where she was a regular contributor to BBC Radio Manchester, then as Rector of Holy Innocents Fallowfield with Birch, Honorary Chaplain to Manchester University at St Peter's House and Padre to 6MI Manchester. From 2012 - 2018 Matthews served as Trustee to the William Temple Foundation, latterly as acting Chair publishing the Temple Tract Grace and Power: sexuality and gender in the CHurch of England in 2015. 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.