Career
She is the current Archdeacon of Wells. Sullivan was brought up in Suffolk. She qualified as a nurse in 1981 and a midwife in 1984, after which she worked both in the United Kingdom and, with Tearfund, in Swaziland and Ethiopia.
She was ordained in 1995 and her clerical career began with a curacy at Street Anne"s Church in Earlham near Norwich.
She was made Sub-Dean of Wells Cathedral in 2003. Sullivan was appointed Archdeacon of Wells and a residentiary canon of Wells Cathedral in 2007.
The role of archdeacon involves oversight of 200 parishes in the eastern half of the county of Somerset.
