Claire Wood is a

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priest and the

Archdeacon of Loughborough The Archdeacon of Loughborough is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Leicester. The archdeaconry was created within the Diocese of Peterborough and from the Archdeaconry of Leicester on 25 February 1921 but became part of the ne ...

. She was born in 1963 and trained for the priesthood via the St Albans & Oxford Ministry Course. She was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform va ...

deacon A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. Major Christian churches, such as the Catholic Churc ...

in 2006, and

priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particu ...

in 2007. After a curacy at St Peter & St Paul,

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she was

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of St Peter and St Paul

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, and

Area Dean In the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion as well as some Lutheran denominations, a rural dean is a member of clergy who presides over a "rural deanery" (often referred to as a deanery); "ruridecanal" is the corresponding adjective. ...

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. She was inducted as archdeacon at Leicester Cathedral on 8 October 2017.

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