Mark joined the Queen’s Foundation in 2007, having been a Team Rector in West Yorkshire for 5 years.

Mark trained for ministry at Cranmer Hall in Durham and was ordained in 1991. He served a curacy in Leicester diocese before becoming Minister-in-Charge of an Anglican-Methodist Local Ecumenical Partnership (LEP) church on the edge of Chatham, Kent.

From there he moved to Salisbury where he worked at the ecumenical Institute for Liturgy and Mission at Sarum College. This provided a base for his work as National Education Officer for Praxis, a Church of England organisation for liturgical renewal and education. He played a key national role in the preparations for the introduction of the Common Worship services, and produced training resources which were used in thousands of parishes. He is the author of numerous books and articles on worship and liturgy. He chairs the Group for the Renewal of Worship (GROW), who produce the Grove booklets on liturgy and worship. He is also a member of the Society for Liturgical Study and a trained Myers-Briggs practitioner.

Mark originally trained as a Civil Engineer at Loughborough University. He is a keen amateur actor, and is enjoying the opportunity to belong to Harborne’s Moorpool Players.

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