Chapter, chaired by the Dean, is our governing body of trustees providing vision, strategic direction to the Cathedral.

Formal roles and responsibilities are set out in ecclesiastical law and enshrined in our governance documents.

Legislation and statutes were recently updated in the Cathedrals Measure which passed into law on receiving Royal Assent in July 2021.

Abigail, or Abi as she is known, is no stranger to South Yorkshire and will be a familiar face to many in the Diocese of Sheffield. Abi was previously parish priest at Clifton in Rotherham from 2010 to 2018. She also served on the Bishop of Sheffield’s Senior Staff Team as the Dean of Women’s Ministry from 2015 to 2018. She joins Sheffield Cathedral from St Albans Cathedral in Hertfordshire where she was the Sub Dean.

She graduated in Music at King’s College London and in Theology at Westcott House Cambridge. Abi holds both ABRSM Grade 8 Piano and ABRSM Grade 8 Singing and before ordination was a youth worker and freelance professional singer.

Abi was ordained a Priest in 2007, serving her curacy at Sheffield Manor Parish.

Geoffrey was born and grew up in Sheffield. He served in parishes in Rotherham and Doncaster until becoming the Bishop of Sheffield’s Chaplain in 2004.

In October 2020 he was appointed the acting dean of Sheffield and will continue in this post until the new dean takes office, leading a reinvigoration of the Cathedral’s mission and ministry to both the city and the diocese.

He has just completed 21 years representing the diocese on the General Synod and has particular interests in canon law and in international ecumenical links with the Old Catholic Churches and with the Evangelical Church in Germany.

Angela has worshipped at Sheffield Cathedral since 1989 when her son James became a chorister. Since then, she has been and continues to be much involved in cathedral life, initially as a choir parent and in recent years as intercessor, reader, Church Warden and Chapter member since 2019.

She very much enjoys involvement in the wider Cathedral life through a range of activities, whether serving refreshments, membership of the Mission and Ministry Committee, Chair of Friends of Sheffield Cathedral or governance. The latter has included the Sheffield Diocesan Board of Education, the Cathedral Archer Project, Bishop’s appointee to Whirlow Spirituality Centre and Cathedral representative on the Attercliffe Deanery. Most recently Angela was privileged, as a member of Chapter, to be on the discernment panel for the new Dean. These roles draw on considerable experience pre-retirement as a senior academic at Sheffield Hallam University where she continues to teach on post graduate teacher training programmes, provide 1:1 support for students with learning difficulties. Angela’s passion for learning and teaching also continues through her role as a school governor.

A love of travel has resulted in overseas work including leadership and management training in Pakistan for the British Council and the Aga Khan university, and voluntary work in Christian settings in the Philippines, Nepal and a variety of African countries (Burkina Faso, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda). Hopefully when travel permits this will continue.

A devoted grandmother, Angela loves to spend time with her two young grandsons, son and daughter in law, her son being one of the three Extreme Cellists (whose roots began at Sheffield Cathedral) and a lay clerk at Chester Cathedral, where the 7-year-old elder grandson is following in his father’s footsteps as a probationer!

Sally first attended the Cathedral on coming to Sheffield in the mid '70s and was married here in 1978. After some time in a local parish, she returned in 1991 and has been a regular member of the congregation ever since.

Sally has experience of four Bishops and soon four Provosts/Deans. Over the years she has been; Sunday School Leader, Steward, member of the Serving Team, Lay Eucharistic Minister, member of the Mission and Ministry Committee and Secretary of The Friends of Sheffield Cathedral.

Sally’s career was in the Civil Service working for HM Courts and Tribunals Service. Her specialism was Probate and she was responsible for Probate Registries in Leeds, Sheffield, Lincoln and York. Sally was elected as Churchwarden and Chapter member in 2021. She retired in 2020 and in addition to Cathedral roles she is looking forward to sitting as a Magistrate.

Pam is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering with broad experience in the manufacturing and engineering industries. She has worked in large companies such as GKN Sankey and East Midlands Electricity plc but also has considerable experience of owning and managing small engineering businesses. She has served on the boards of a variety of companies including Chesterfield Royal Foundation Trust Hospital, Source BioScience plc and the Rainbow Seed Fund. She is currently a Director/Trustee of several organisations including Quest Investments Ltd, Sheffield Cathedral and Sheffield Assay Office.     

Pam served as a Governor of Sheffield Hallam University, Chairman of the Governors of Sheffield High School and a Trustee of the City & Guilds of London Institute. She was a visiting Professor to the Department of Engineering at the University of Sheffield, who named in 2014 the new Engineering Post Graduate building after her. She was the first woman to be elected as President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers as well as the first woman to be elected as Master of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, where she is an active Member and chairs both the Halls and the Events/Hospitality Committees. She has served as High Sheriff of South Yorkshire and is a Deputy Lieutenant of that County. She was awarded the OBE for services to engineering and has a number of Honorary Doctorates.    

Born raised and schooled in Sheffield at 16 Jack started a career in bookselling. After serving for 5 years, learning his trade, he was fortunate to be offered the opportunity to spend time in the USA where further bookselling experience was gained following introductions to leading American Booksellers. The experience proved invaluable and back in the UK this led to further introductions within the publishing industry.

Due to forming strong business relationships and these developing further, Jack became a founder member of Omega Books Ltd. Due to the experience of the three founding members the business was developed from a base in London to serve clients internationally. Jack took on the role of International Sales and this involved travelling the world twice a year both selling and acquiring products and rights. Additional and frequent trips were necessary to North America and Europe. Successes led to Omega being acquired by Godfrey Cave Holdings and after further successes the group was acquired by Penguin Books a division of Pearson Holdings. Jack enjoyed 5 happy years at Penguin but after an approach by head-hunters he went on to help develop a new company for the Hodder Headline Group.

After further corporate developments and acquisitions Jack decided in 2004 to move back north and develop his increasing interest in volunteering within the Church of England community. Jack served for many years as Diocesan Treasurer in the Diocese of Derby and continues to serve on various boards and councils in Derby. In 2015 Jack was appointed a Lay Canon of Derby Cathedral. In May 2019 Jack became a member of Chapter at Sheffield Cathedral. Jack resides in Hathersage and when time allows adores travel.

Julie lived in Bradford until she started training for the Church Army in 1981.  She then worked as a Deanery Training Officer before ordination training at Ripon College Cuddesdon. She was Deaconed in 1988 and priested in 1994.

After her curacy in Kirkstall, Leeds, the rest of her ministry has been in large teams including South London, Bramley in Leeds, a large rural team ministry in Suffolk, Manningham in Bradford and as Team Rector of Sheffield Manor Parish from 2010 to January 2021.

She also worked for 10 years in the voluntary sector, managing community projects and leading the development and national roll-out of a quality standard for organisations involving volunteers.

In Sheffield she has served as honorary Pastoral Tutor for St Hild’s College, trustee of the Urban Theology Union, a school governor and a board member of several community groups. She has been a Canon of Sheffield Cathedral since 2014 and a member of the Chapter since 2015.  In January 2021 she was appointed to one of the Associate Archdeacon Transition Enabler posts, working with Parishes and Mission Areas as they move over to the new model of Ministry in the Diocese. 

Managing change has been a passionate commitment in all these roles, along with building the capacity of individuals and organisations to recognise the benefits of working collaboratively.

John, who was born in Sheffield, is a Chartered Accountant with many years experience in financial management. He started his career in the profession and then he transferred to industry, where he was the Financial Director of both a public company and a number of private companies all based in Sheffield.

For seven years John was a member of the Council of Sheffield University and on retirement from that role, he was appointed to the Audit Committee of the University.

He has been involved with Church of England in Sheffield for many years. Firstly as treasurer to a number of parishes and then for 10 years as Chairman of the Sheffield Diocesan Board of Finance, where he worked closely with the then Bishop of Sheffield the Right Reverend Jack Nicholls.

John’s other Charity work includes an extensive period as a Trustee of Sheffield Museums. Following retirement from that role he was appointed as Chairman of the subsidiary company SGMT Enterprises Ltd, which manages the commercial activities of Sheffield Museums whose purpose is the create funds in support of the Museums.

John was High Sheriff of South Yorkshire in 2006/2007.

Our Ministry Team, which also includes Dean Abi and Interim Canon Precentor Geoffrey, work together to lead and support the worship and ministry of the Cathedral.

Ian is a Minor Canon of the Cathedral, and served previously as the Multifaith Chaplaincy Co-ordinator at Sheffield Hallam University. He shares in supporting congregational development and learning in the Cathedral. Ian is a Church Army Evangelist and also a member of the Society of Catholic Priests.

Casey is a Minor Canon of the Cathedral, supporting the Cathedral’s work with young adults and its programme of lectures. He serves in this role as a self-supporting minister alongside his full time job as Senior Lecturer in Ancient Near Eastern History and Literature in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield. He was ordained Priest in 2019 at Sheffield Cathedral.

Casey is trained as a biblical scholar and historian, and completed his D.Phil research on the book of Ezekiel in 2011. His subsequent publication of it won the Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise in 2015. Casey arrived in Sheffield in 2013 to take up his post at the University. Prior to that he taught at Oriel College, Oxford, and at King’s College London. He is married to Amanda, and has two sons. While he and Amanda are originally American, both their boys are ‘proper Englishmen’—just ask them.

Mike was commissioned as Hon Cathedral Evangelist on Christ the King Sunday 2014 in recognition of his fruitful ministry within the Cathedral. He has worked as a volunteer Chaplain to visitors since Easter 2011. On a day to day basis Mike ‘rubs shoulders’ with the many visitors to the cathedral. It is an opportunity to share the good news of the Christian Gospel as need arises. He also has a supporting role to the volunteer guides and welcomers, and facilitates events for Seniors.

Ann returned to her home town of Sheffield after retiring as Rector of Adwick-le-Street and Skelbrooke and priest in charge of Skellow and Owston in Doncaster. Always a Sheffielder at heart, Ann went to Myers Grove School and then to Huddersfield Polytechnic to study Systems and Control Engineering.  She worked as a graduate engineer for British Steel in the early 1980's, and after becoming mother to Rebecca and Rosie, she returned to write multi-media training programmes for British Steel/Corus. Ann began training in 2000 and was ordained deacon in 2003, priested in 2004, serving her curacy at St Mary the Virgin, Ecclesfield followed by incumbency in Doncaster for 14 years. Ann is also a member of the diocesan Health and wellbeing group, involved in promoting the healing ministry of the church, and a committee member of ChangingSheff, the city centre residents association. 

Prior to ordination Richard’s working life began as a teacher of Physics in local comprehensive schools. He subsequently moved into higher education, training secondary science teachers at Sheffield Hallam University. He has worked on a number of international projects which have focused upon the development of science teaching programmes across Europe. Richard came to ordination after serving as a Lay Reader for 20 years in the diocese. As a self-supporting priest Richard served in parishes in Doncaster. He was Area Dean of the Adwick le Street Deanery until his retirement from parish ministry in 2021. He has been active nationally and locally in the discernment and selection of vocations to ordained ministry and continues to serve as Assistant Diocesan Director of Ordinands. 

The Revd Canon Christopher Barley

The Revd Canon Amanda Barraclough

The Revd Canon Phillip Batchford

The Revd Canon Mark Brown

The Venerable Malcolm Chamberlain

The Revd Canon Karen Cribb

The Revd Canon Justin Dodd

Dr Susan Gentle

The Revd Canon Geoffrey Harbord

The Revd Canon Toby Hole

The Revd Canon Andrew Howard

The Venerable Javaid Iqbal

The Rt Revd Sophie Jelley

The Revd Canon Adam Priestley

The Revd Canon Michael Reeder

The Revd Canon Matthew Rhodes

The Revd Canon Eleanor Robertshaw

The Revd Canon Ian Smith

The Revd Canon David Stevens

The Revd Canon Rick Stordy

The Very Revd Abi Thompson

The Revd Canon Julie Upton

The Revd Canon Ian Walker

The Revd Canon Mark Wigglesworth