Helen Cunliffe

Cunliffe was ordained deaconess in 1983, deacon in 1987 and priest in 1994.^[2] She worked at the Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield and the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford before becoming Chaplain of Nuffield College, Oxford. She was deacon-in-charge of St Paul's Church, Clapham from 1989 and became its first woman vicar in 1994; Cunliffe was a Residentiary Canon (Canon Pastor) of Southwark Cathedral from 1997 to 2002.^[1][3]

Her husband, Christopher Cunliffe, was Archdeacon of Derby^[4] from 2006 to 2020.^[5]