Clergy
There are a great number of people who work to keep the church running on a day-to-day basis. At the head of the team are the clergy and licensed lay ministers across the benefice.
Team Rector | Revd Canon Theresa Scott |
Team Curate | |
Team Vicar | Revd Becky Mathew |
Team Vicar | Revd Chris Boyce |
Assistant Priest | Revd Bob Atkins |
Licensed Lay Minister | Colin Cockshaw |
Licensed Lay Minister | Mary Roe |
Licensed Lay Minister | Elizabeth Taylor |
Revd Canon Theresa Scott
Team Rector
St Edburg’s Church, Bicester; St Lawrence’s Church, Caversfield
Theresa is the Team Rector in Bicester with pastoral responsibility for St Edburg’s Church, Bicester and St Laurence in Caversfield. She has worked in Bicester since the beginning of 2008 and has been ordained since 1992. Theresa is married to John who is an engineer and they have two grown up children.
Theresa is passionate about sharing the good news of Jesus Christ and is very much enjoying living in Bicester. Her rest day is Monday.
Email: theresa.scott@stedburgschurch.org
Tel: 01869 241361
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Revd Becky Mathew
Team Vicar
St Mary’s Church, Launton; St Peter’s Church, Bucknell
Becky is a Team Vicar with special responsibility for the village churches of St Mary’s, Launton and St Peter’s, Bucknell.
She comes to Bicester after serving overseas with The Church Mission Society for 3 years in Sri Lanka with the Anglican Diocese of Colombo. She served as a parish priest in Christ Church, Mirihana and also as a school chaplain at S. Thomas’ College, Mt Lavinia.
She is married to Shemil and they were blessed with the birth of their first son Thomas in 2010. Her rest day is Thursday.
Email: becky.mathew@stedburgschurch.org
Tel: 01869 324153
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Revd Chris Boyce
Team Vicar
Emmanuel Church, Bicester
Chris became a Christian in his last year at school and trained as an architect, subsequently working in London, Papua New Guinea, Nigeria, Jersey and Eastbourne. He was accepted to train for the ministry in 1984 and has been involved in parishes in Eastbourne and Merseyside.
He is married to Lyn they have two children and three grandchildren.
Currently he is involved in the adventure of helping to start a church from scratch in Bicester.
Email: chris.boyce@bicesterareateam.co.uk
Tel: 01869 244918
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Revd Bob Atkins
Assistant Priest
Bob is a non-stipendiary priest licenced to the Bicester Team. He is married to Sherry and they have four grown up children. Bob’s ministry covers all the churches of the team, but he has special responsibility for St Laurence, Caversfield.
Email: bob.atkins@bicesterareateam.co.uk
Tel: 01869 244918
Colin Cockshaw
Licensed Lay Minister
St Edburg’s Church, Bicester
Colin is married to Freddie and they have two adult daughters. He is a professional town planner and has also worked as a Mission Adviser for USPG and is Chair of Christian Concern for One World, which provides information and resources for Christians and churches on issues such as Fair Trade, Poverty and Climate Change.
Email: colin.cockshaw@stedburgschurch.org
Mary Roe
Licensed Lay Minister
St Edburg’s Church, Bicester
Mary is the widow of Gordon Roe, a former Bishop of Huntingdon. She read theology as a mature student and has since taught in secondary schools, as a tutor for ordinands and lay readers in training and been an adviser to church schools in the Ely Diocese.
She is chairman of the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship and a member of the Council of the Modern Churchpeople’s Union.
She has four adult children and 10 grandchildren.
Email: mary.roe@stedburgschurch.org
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Elizabeth Taylor
Licensed Lay Minister
St Edburg’s Church, Bicester
Elizabeth was licensed as a Lay Minister in 1999. Since 2004 she has worked for the Anglican Church of Tanzania offering her IT skills and for the last four years helped to inaugaurate their new university, St John’s. Her time in Tanzania was also an opportunity to see the Church at work in a different culture and to be a part of it. She continues to have links with Tanzania.
Elizabeth believes in the importance of recognising that we are part of a Global Church whose members should work with and support each other locally and globally.
Email: elizabeth.taylor@stedburgschurch.org
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