Susan Elizabeth Field (born 10 May 1959) is an English

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priest and former Archdeacon Pastor (and

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) in the

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from 18 March 2018 resigning in January 2023. Field was educated at

King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham King Edward VI High School for Girls (KEHS) is an all-girls public school located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. It was founded in 1883 and occupies the same site as, and is twinned with the King Edward's School (KEHS; boys' school). Hist ...

and the

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. She taught

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Queensbridge School Queensbridge School is a mixed, 11-16 comprehensive school in Moseley, West Midlands, England. It is judged an Outstanding School by Ofsted. Results in 2017 place it in top 10% schools nationally for P8 for low and high prior attainers. The sch ...

for three years. She studied for the

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hood at

Queen's College, Birmingham Queen's College was a medical school in central Birmingham, England, and a predecessor college of the University of Birmingham. It was founded by surgeon William Sands Cox in 1825 as The Birmingham Medical School, a residential college for med ...

. She was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are Consecration in Christianity, consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the religious denomination, denominationa ...

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in 1987; and

in 1994. After a

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she was the

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from 1991 to 1998. She was

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from 1998 until 2014; and

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Nanpantan Nanpantan is a historic village, ward and suburb of Loughborough, in the Charnwood (borough), Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England. It is located in the south-west of the town of Loughborough. It is home to Nanpantan Reservoir. History ...

from 2014 until her appointment as Archdeacon Pastor. During her time in Loughborough, she also held other senior leadership posts. On 4 January 2023, Field accepted a Penalty by Consent and resigned her role as Archdeacon as the result of a complaint under a Clergy Discipline Measure. ("Conduct unbecoming & inappropriate to the office and work of a clerk in Holy Orders"). An injunction was also taken out against her. In April 2023, The Bishop of Leicester appointed Rev. Sue Field to be Team Rector of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Breedon on the Hill Team Ministry in the Leicester Diocese. Her service of institution and induction took place on 10 May 2023 at St Helen's Church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch and was conducted by the Bishop of Loughborough, The Right Reverend Saju Muthalaly.

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Archdeacons of Coventry 1959 births Clergy from Birmingham, West Midlands People educated at King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham Living people Alumni of the Queen's Foundation Alumni of the University of York 20th-century English Anglican priests 21st-century English Anglican priests {{Canterbury-archdeacon-20C-stub