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Catherine originally studied French and Russian at Manchester University, before joining the Welsh Office as an Executive Officer where she spent three years working in the Planning Division and the Further and Higher Education Division. She then went on to train for ministry at St Michael’s College and was ordained at Llandaff Cathedral in 1996.
Catherine served two curacies in Llandaff Diocese, before becoming Incumbent of the Irfon Valley and Blaenau Irfon parishes in Swansea and Brecon Diocese. Following two years as Chaplain to the Haberdashers’ Monmouth School for Girls, she worked in the Monmouth Ministry Area as community engagement priest.
As well as parish work, Catherine has been Diocesan Children’s Advisor in both Llandaff and Monmouth; Diocesan Director of Education in Swansea and Brecon; and a member of Governing Body. She serves on the Liturgical Commission for the Church in Wales, the Joint Liturgical Group of Great Britain (including the Churches Funerals Group and the English Language Liturgical Committee), and the International Anglican Liturgical Consultation.
In her spare time, Catherine is an ATC Chaplain and Chaplain to both the Sea Cadets and the Royal Naval Association. She is also a governor at her local Comprehensive School. She relaxes by reading, studying and walking with friends and their dogs.
My research interests
My research interests include liturgy and Church History. I am a member of Societas Liturgica, the Society for Liturgical Study, the Ecclesiastical History Society and the Alcuin Club. As part of a think tank at Durham University, I am currently also exploring the theological and liturgical implications for the proposed practice of Alkaline Hydrolysis in funerals.
Published work
Church in Wales: Papers
2021: When the Rubber hits the Road: Liturgy and Mission. Church in Wales Governing Body
2023: Liturgy and Mission and its Implications for Today’s Church. Church in Wales Liturgy and Evangelism Group
Anaphora: Journal Publications
2011: Liturgy and Mission among Children in Late Victorian Anglican Ritualism
2012: Book Reviews: Jane Williams. ‘Lectionary Reflections: Years A, B, and C’ and James Woodward, Paula Gooder & Mark Pryce. ‘Journeying with Mark: Lectionary Year B’
2014: The Use and Influence of Anglican Liturgy in Children's Education in the Mid-Late Nineteenth Century
Ecclesiastical History Society: Papers
July 2017: The Impact of Liturgical Development in the Church of England on Worship in Schools in the Late Nineteenth Century. Exeter, UK
Oxford University Press: Book Chapter (publication pending 2025)
‘From Week to Week? The Book of Common Prayer and Frequency of Communion from 1549 to Today’ in Paul Bradshaw, Luiz Coelho, Ruth Meyers, eds. Oxford Handbook of the Book of Common Prayer
Routledge: Book (publication pending 2025/6)
How Children’s Worship Changed the Church: Ritualism, Liturgy and Children in the Late Nineteenth Century Church of England
Societas Liturgica Papers
August 2015:: The Liturgical Formation of Children through the Eucharist in the Church of England in the late Nineteenth-Century. Quebec, Canada
August 2017: The influence of children’s hymns on the ecclesiology of the 19th Century Church of England. Leuven, Belgium
Society for Liturgical Study Papers
April 2012: The Use of the Bible in Liturgy and Mission among Children in Late Victorian Anglican Ritualism. Kings’ College, London
August 2014: The Use and Influence of Anglican Liturgy in Children's Education in the Mid-Late Nineteenth Century. Mirfield, UK
August 2022: Ecclesiological Conflict and Liturgical Change. Mirfield, UK
University of Helsinki
ThD. Thesis: Ritualism, Children and Liturgical Change in the Late Nineteenth Century Church of England. Helsinki. Unigrafia, December, 2022. ISBN 978-951-51-8794-9