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Bev Mason
Anglican bishop in England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Beverley Anne Mason (called Bev;[1][2][3][4] born August 1960) is a British Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Warrington, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Liverpool, from 2018 until 2025. After parish ministry in the Dioceses of Rochester, Southwark and Bradford, her final post before becoming a bishop was as the Archdeacon of Richmond and Craven in the Diocese of Leeds from 2016 to 2018.[5]
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Early life and education
Mason was born in August 1960,[6] in Germany. She trained for ordained ministry at Trinity College, Bristol, an evangelical Anglican theological college.[7] During this time, she also studied theology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 2000.[8] After a further year of training, she left theological college to be ordained.[9]
Ordained ministry
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Mason was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2001 and as a priest in 2003.[9] She served curacies at St Paul's Church, Rusthall (2001 to 2002) and St Margaret's Church, Rainham (2002 to 2005) in the Diocese of Rochester.[8][9] She was then Vicar of the Church of St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood in the Diocese of Southwark from 2005 to 2012.[9][2] She was additionally Area Dean of Croydon North between 2010 and 2012.[9]
In 2012, Mason moved to Yorkshire, having been appointed Priest-in-Charge of Church of All Saints, Bingley in the Diocese of Bradford.[9][10] She was made Vicar of All Saints a year later.[9] She was announced as the next Archdeacon of Richmond and Craven of the Diocese of Leeds in September 2015, and left All Saints at the end of 2015.[11] She took up the appointment of archdeacon in 2016.[8]
Episcopal ministry
On 24 July 2018, Mason was announced as the next Bishop of Warrington, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Liverpool.[12] She was consecrated as a bishop at York Minster by John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, on 18 October 2018.[13] She was officially welcomed into the diocese during a service at Liverpool Cathedral on 17 November 2018.[14] In the vacancy following Paul Bayes' retirement, Mason became acting diocesan Bishop of Liverpool.[1]
In April 2024, it was stated that she was away from the diocese and not carrying out any engagements, for reasons not thought related to her health.[15] In January 2025, it was made public that John Perumbalath, Bishop of Liverpool, had been accused by one woman of sexual assault and by a female bishop of sexual harassment,[16] and he retired. Mason then stated in a pastoral letter to the Diocese of Liverpool that she was the female bishop in question.[17][18][19]
In April 2025, while still on leave from the Diocese of Liverpool, Mason was appointed an honorary assistant bishop of the Diocese of St Asaph, part of the Church in Wales.[20][21] In a statement on the Diocese of Liverpool's website she remarked: "I look forward with hope to a restored and renewed ministry in the Province of the Church in Wales. [...] I remain Bishop of Warrington as I continue to wait and push for a proper resolution to my unhappy situation. Today [4 April 2025], it is 574 days since I exercised an episcopal ministry.".[22] In September 2025 it was announced that she would from being bishop of Warrington;[23] she duly resigned her See effective 1 October 2025.[24]
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