Sarah Elizabeth Clark (born 21 April 1965) is a British

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bishop. Since 2019, she has served as

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, the

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of the Diocese of Durham in the

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. She was

Archdeacon of Nottingham The Archdeacon of Nottingham is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham, who exercises supervision of clergy and responsibility for church buildings within the Archdeaconry of Nottingham. Histor ...

from 2014 to 2019.

Early life and education

Clark was born on 21 April 1965 in

South Wales South Wales ( cy, De Cymru) is a loosely defined region of Wales bordered by England to the east and mid Wales to the north. Generally considered to include the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, south Wales extends westwards ...

. She was educated at

Abersychan School Abersychan School is a state-funded and non-selective comprehensive school in the Pontypool suburb of Abersychan, Wales. Admissions Abersychan School has 920 pupils on roll. It serves the north of Torfaen including the communities of Blaenavon, G ...

, a then

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, Pontypool. She studied

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and history at the

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, graduating with a

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(BA) degree in 1986. Her first career was as a civil servant, working in the Department of Employment from 1987 to 1995. She completed a

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(MBA) from Keele University in 1994.

Ordained ministry

Clark trained for ordained ministry at St John's College, Nottingham, an evangelical Anglican theological college. She also studied theology and completed a

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(MA) degree in 1997. She was made a deacon at

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1998 (28 June), by

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, at Southwell Minster, and

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priest the Petertide following (3 July 1999), by Alan Morgan,

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, at St Mark's, Woodthorpe. After a curacy in Porcester, Nottingham, she was the Rector of

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from 2002 until 2009. She was the

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of Worksop from 2006 until 2009; and the incumbent at

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until her appointment as

. On 20 December 2018, it was announced that Clark was to become the next

, the sole

of the Diocese of Durham. On 27 February 2019, she was consecrated a bishop by

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, during a service at York Minster.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, Sarah 1965 births Alumni of Loughborough University Archdeacons of Nottingham Living people People from Torfaen Bishops of Jarrow Women Anglican bishops Alumni of Keele University Alumni of St John's College, Nottingham Welsh civil servants British women civil servants Civil servants in the Department of Employment