Jill Duff

The Right Reverend

Jill Duff
Bishop of Lancaster
ChurchChurch of England
DioceseDiocese of Blackburn
In office2018–present
Other post(s)Director of St Mellitus College, North West (March 2013 – 2018)
Orders
Ordination2003 (deacon)
2004 (priest)
Consecration2018
Personal details
Born
Jillian Louise Calland Worsley

1972 (age 51–52)
Bolton, Lancashire, England
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglicanism
SpouseRev. Jeremy Duff
Children2 sons
Alma mater

Jillian Louise Calland Duff (called Jill;[1][2][3][4] née Worsley; born 1972) is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2018, she has been the Bishop of Lancaster, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Blackburn. Previously, she had been Director of St Mellitus College, North West, an Anglican theological college, from 2013 to 2018.

Before ordination, she studied chemistry at university and worked in the oil industry. After ordination in the Church of England, she served in the Diocese of Liverpool in parish ministry, chaplaincy, and church planting.

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