{{Short description|British Anglican priest}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Priest | honorific_prefix = The Very Reverend Dr | name = Mandy Ford | honorific_suffix = | title = Dean of Bristol | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | church = Church of England | province = | diocese = Diocese of Bristol | term = October 2020 to present | predecessor = David Hoyle | successor = | other_post = <!---------- Orders ----------> | ordination = | ordained_by = | consecration = | consecrated_by = | laicized = <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = Amanda Kirstine Ford | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1961}} <!-- {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = Wool, Dorset, England | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = <!-- as birth_place --> | nationality = British | religion = Anglicanism | residence = | parents = Sir David Ford (father) | partner = Anne ({{abbr|cp.|civil partnership}} 2007) | children = | occupation = | profession = <!-- or | previous_post = --> | education = | alma_mater = {{plain list| * Middlesex University * Open University * St Stephen's House, Oxford * University of Oxford * University of Nottingham }} }} '''Amanda Kirstine Ford''' (known as '''Mandy'''; born 1961)<ref>{{Crockford | forenames = Amanda Kirstine | surname = Ford | id = 1125 | accessed = 4 June 2020 }}</ref> is a British Anglican priest who has served as Dean of Bristol since 3 October 2020.<ref name="inst">{{cite web |title=Installation of the Revd Canon Dr Mandy Ford as Dean of Bristol marks a first for the Church of England |url=https://www.bristol.anglican.org/news/installation-of-the-revd-canon-dr-mandy-ford-as-dean-of-bristol-marks-a-first-for-the-church-of-england.php |website=Diocese of Bristol |access-date=2 February 2022 |date=24 September 2020}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Ford was born in 1961 in Wool, Dorset, England.<ref name="WW 22">{{cite web |title=Ford, Very Rev. Dr Amanda Kirstine, (born 9 Jan. 1961), Dean of Bristol, since 2020 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U294694 |website=Who's Who 2022 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=2 February 2022 |language=en |date=1 December 2021}}</ref> Her father was Sir David Robert Ford, an army officer at the time of her birth who became a civil servant and rose to become Chief Secretary of Hong Kong.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ford, Sir David (Robert), (22 Feb. 1935–10 Sept. 2017), Chief Secretary, Hong Kong Government, 1986–93; Chairman: PCCW (Europe), since 2003; UK Broadband, since 2004 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U16074 |website=Who Was Who |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=2 February 2022 |language=en |date=1 December 2017}}</ref> She was educated at Cranborne Chase School, an all-girls private boarding school in Wiltshire.<ref name="WW 22" /> She studied fine art at the Central School of Art, Middlesex University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1983.<ref name="WW 22" /><ref name="Crockford">{{Crockford| surname = Ford | forenames = Amanda Kirstine | id = 1125 | accessed = 2 February 2022}}</ref> She was a self-employed artist from 1988 to 1992, and also a teacher at The Maynard School in Exeter from 1990 to 1996.<ref name="WW 22" /> Having studied with the Open University, she completed a Master of Education (MEd)<ref name="WW 22" /> or Master of Arts (MA) degree in 1997.<ref name="Crockford" />
From 1998 to 2000, Ford trained for ordination at St Stephen's House, Oxford.<ref name="Crockford" /> She would later graduate from the University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Theology (BTh) degree in 2004.<ref name="Crockford" /> She has am MA degree and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in ethics and biblical interpretation from the University of Nottingham: her doctoral thesis was titled "The self in the mirror of the Scriptures: the hermeneutics and ethics of Paul Ricoeur" and was submitted in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ford |first1=Amanda Kirstine |title=The self in the mirror of the Scriptures: the hermeneutics and ethics of Paul Ricoeur |url=https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.559653 |website=E-Thesis Online Service |publisher=The British Library Board |access-date=2 February 2022 |date=2012}}</ref>
==Ordained ministry== Ford was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2000 and as a priest in 2001.<ref name="Crockford" /> She served her curacy at the Parish of the Resurrection, Leicester from 2000 to 2005.<ref name="WW 22" /> As a curate, she worked with excluded children in Leicester. She then joined the Diocese of Leicester as vicar of Beaumont Leys, and in 2008 became Chair of the Fabric Advisory Committee of Leicester Cathedral.<ref>{{cite web |title=New Dean of Bristol Announced |url=https://bristol-cathedral.co.uk/news/new-dean-of-bristol-announced |website=Bristol Cathedral |access-date=11 September 2021}}</ref>
She had been Canon Chancellor of Southwark Cathedral and Director of Ministerial Education in the Diocese of Southwark since 2014 to 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Clergy: The Revd Canon Dr Mandy Ford – Canon Chancellor |url=https://cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/about-us/whos-who/the-clergy/ |website=Southwark Cathedral |accessdate=4 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=New Dean of Bristol Announced |url=https://bristol-cathedral.co.uk/news/new-dean-of-bristol-announced |website=Bristol Cathedral |accessdate=4 June 2020 |date=3 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=NEW DEAN OF BRISTOL ANNOUNCED |url=https://bristol.anglican.org/news/new-dean-of-bristol-announced.php |website=Diocese of Bristol |accessdate=4 June 2020 |date=3 June 2020}}</ref> She was also Interim Director of the Ministry Division of the Church of England between 2018 and 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dr Mandy Ford to lead Church of England's Ministry Division |url=https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/news/dr-mandy-ford-lead-church-englands-ministry-division |website=The Church of England |accessdate=4 June 2020 |language=en |date=3 September 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Dr Mandy Ford to lead Church of England's Ministry Division |url=https://southwark.anglican.org/news/press-releases/2018/dr-mandy-ford-to-lead-church-of-england%E2%80%99s-ministry-division |website=Diocese of Southwark |accessdate=4 June 2020}}</ref>
In June 2020, it was announced that she would be the next Dean of Bristol Cathedral.<ref name="GOV">{{cite web |title=Reverend Canon Doctor Amanda Ford appointed Dean of Bristol: 3 June 2020 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/reverend-canon-doctor-amanda-ford-appointed-dean-of-bristol-3-june-2020 |website=GOV.UK |publisher=Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street |accessdate=4 June 2020 |language=en |date=3 June 2020}}</ref> She was installed as the 43rd Dean of Bristol on 3 October 2020: this made the Diocese of Bristol the first Church of England diocese to have women serving as both dean and diocesan bishop.<ref name="inst" />
==Personal life== Ford has been in a same-sex civil partnership with Anne since 2007.<ref name="WW 22" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Ford |first1=Mandy |title=What the Bishops Could Have Said… |url=https://viamedia.news/2020/01/28/what-the-bishops-could-have-said/ |website=ViaMedia.News |accessdate=28 July 2020 |language=en |date=28 January 2020}}</ref>
==Selected works== * {{cite book |last1=Ford |first1=Mandy |title=God, Gender, Sex and Marriage. |date=2019 |publisher=Jessica Kingsley Publishers |location=London |isbn=978-1785924750}}
==References== {{reflist}} {{Deans of Bristol}}
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