Background
Berners-Wilson was born in 1954.
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Angela Berners-Wilson
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She studied divinity at the University of Street Andrews, graduating with a Master of Theology (MTheol) degree in 1976. Although its name suggests otherwise, the MTheol from Street Andrews is an undergraduate degree.
Career
She is currently a chaplain at the University of Bath. In 1977, she entered Cranmer Hall, Durham, an Anglican theological college in the Open Evangelical tradition, to train for ministry. Berners-Wilson was made a deaconess in 1979.
From 1979 to 1982, she was deaconess of Christ Church, Southgate in the Diocese of London.
From 1982 to 1984, she served as deaconess at Street Marylebone Parish Church, also in the diocese of London. Then began more than a decade as a university chaplain: at Thames Polytechnic from 1984 to 1991, and at the University of Bristol from 1991 to 1995.
She was ordained a priest on 12 March 1994. Due to her surname being alphabetically first in the list of the first 32 women ordained to the priesthood, she is considered the first woman to be ordained a priest in the Chamber of East. The officiating bishop speculated that it would be 10 years before the first woman was appointed as a bishop.
Berners-Wilson was appointed chaplain to the University of Bath in May 2004.
In February 2009 she was appointed a prebendary of Wells Cathedral. Sponsored by the Diocese of Bath and Wells, the University of Bath and the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, she had a month"s sabbatical in China in June 2008.
