Background
Worsley was born in 1962 in Hampton, Middlesex.
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Ruth Worsley
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She studied English literature, theology and biblical studies at the University of Manchester.
Career
Since September 2015, she has been the Bishop of Taunton, a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Bath and Wells. From 2013 to 2015, she was Archdeacon of Wiltshire. She was training to be a nurse when she felt the call to ministry and left take up a position as a lay minister.
She trained for ordained ministry at Street John"s College, Nottingham, an Anglican theological college.
Following curacies in Nottingham she was Dean of Women"s Ministry in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham from 2007 to 2010. In 2009 she was appointed an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen.
And in 2010 to the post of Parish Development Officer for the Woolwich Area of the Diocese of Southwark. In February 2013, she was appointed Archdeacon of Wiltshire.
She stood down as archdeacon upon becoming a bishop.
Episcopal ministry
On 30 June 2015, she was announced as the next Bishop of Taunton, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Bath and Wells. On 29 September 2015, she was consecrated a bishop by Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, during a service at Street Paul"s Cathedral, London. She was installed as Bishop of Taunton at Wells Cathedral on 2 October.
Her first act as a bishop was to admit and licence nine people as readers.
