Joy Dawn Tetley (born 9 November 1946) is a

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priest. She was

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from 1999 to 2008. Tetley was educated at

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and

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deaconess The ministry of a deaconess is a ministry for women in some Protestant, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Orthodox churches to provide pastoral care, especially for other women, and which may carry a liturgical role. The word comes from the Greek ...

in 1977,

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in 1987 and

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in 1994. She was a

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Trinity College, Bristol Trinity College, Bristol is an Evangelicalism, evangelical Anglican theological college located in Stoke Bishop, Bristol, England. It offers a range of full-time and part-time taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses which are validated by ...

from 1983 to 1986; Rochester's Diocesan Director of Post-Ordination Training from 1988 to 1993; and Principal of the

East Anglian Ministerial Training Course The Eastern Region Ministry Course (ERMC), based in Cambridge, is a part-residential theological training course which offers initial ministerial training on behalf of the Church of England. It used to offer this for the Methodist Church in Britain ...

from 1993 to 1999. After her years as an Archdeacon she was the Area Director of Ordinands for the

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from 2009 to 2010.‘TETLEY, Ven. Joy Dawn’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2012; online edn, November 201
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References

1946 births Living people Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford Archdeacons of Worcester Staff of Trinity College, Bristol {{Canterbury-archdeacon-20C-stub