Background
Hollinghurst was born in 1964.
Hollinghurst was born in 1964.
She entered Trinity College, Bristol, an Evangelical Anglican theological college, to train for ordained ministry and graduated from the University of Bristol with a Bachelor of Arts (Bachelor) degree in 1996.
Since September 2015, she has been the Bishop of Aston, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Birmingham. From 2010 to 2015, she was Vicar of Street Peter"s Church, Street Albans. Her first career was as a youth worker in suburban Sussex and then in inner-city Nottingham.
From 1996 to 1999, she served her curacy at Street Saviours in the Meadows, Nottingham.
From 1999 to 2005, she was jointly the Anglican chaplain for the University of Derby and a chaplain of Derby Cathedral. During this time, she also lectured on religion and gender in the Religious Studies Department of Derby University.
In 2005, she moved to Manchester. She was appointed domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Manchester, Nigel McCulloch, and a residentiary canon of Manchester Cathedral.
She completed a Master of Studies (MSt) degree at Hughes Hall, Cambridge in 2010.
On 12 January 2010, she became Vicar of Street Peter"s Church, Street Albans in the Diocese of Street Albans. Episcopal ministry
On 2 July 2015, Hollinghurst was announced as the next Bishop of Aston, a suffragan bishopric in the Diocese of Birmingham. On 29 September 2015, she was consecrated a bishop by Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, during a service at Street Paul"s Cathedral, London.
She is the 10th Bishop of Aston.
In 2011, she was elected a member of the House of Clergy of the Street Albans General Synod.