Janet Henderson

Janet Henderson (born 1957) is a Welsh Anglican priest and former nurse. In 2012, she became the first woman appointed to the post of Dean of Llandaff.

Henderson was born in Neath and grew up in Llandrindod Wells and Aberystwyth. She was educated at Ardwyn Grammar School Aberystwyth and Howell's School Llandaff. Shewent on to a career in nursing working at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. She left nursing to become an Anglican priest. She studied theology and trained for ordination at Cranmer Hall, Durham. In 1988, she graduated from Durham University with a first class honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.

In 1988, Henderson was ordained an Anglican deacon at Ely Cathedral. She later became one of the Church of England's first women priests, ordained at Southwell Minster in 1994. She served a curacy at St Peter and Paul, in Wisbech, before moving to Nottingham where she served in the Bestwood Team Ministry, Bestwood. She was appointed lecturer in Worship at St John's College, Nottingham in 1993 and moved to the Cambridge Theological Federation in 1997 where she spent four years teaching worship and was Tutor and Director of Studies at Ridley Hall Theological College. In 2001, she left Ridley to become Priest-in-Charge at St Patrick’s, Nuthall and Dean of Women's Ministry in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham. From 2004 she was also an honorary canon of Southwell Minster.

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