Introducing our Curates
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Nick joined the Benefice in July 2020 and was ordained deacon in Leicester Cathedral on 27th September 2020 and priest at St Thomas' on 2nd October 2021. Nick was born and raised in Sussex. Having studied history at the University of Kent, he became an assistant in a second-hand bookshop which launched him into an (unexpected!) career in the world of books. After a spell in an auction house, he spent nine years with the historic collections at Eton College and was later appointed librarian of Hereford Cathedral. He came to the Midlands in 2014 when he joined Princethorpe College, Rugby, as its archivist. Nick first felt the call to ordained ministry in his late teens but only started to explore it a few years ago. Prior to joining the Wigston Benefice, Nick trained at the College of St Hild and was on placement at Burbage and Aston Flamville.
Paul joined the Benefice for the final year of contextual ordination training before being ordained deacon in Leicester Cathedral on Sunday 3rd October 2021. Born and raised in Leicestershire, Paul initially studied interior architecture at De Montfort University before moving to a career in graphic design, where he enjoyed working with a true diversity of artists and clients, both nationally and internationally. Initially sensing a call to ordination through leading Taizé prayer in the Harborough Anglican Team, and following a time of further discernment and subsequent recommendation, Paul trained contextually for ordination whilst studying theology, ministry and mission at St Hild College in Mirfield and Sheffield. With a background in the arts, Paul is excited to serve curacy in the Wigston Benefice, to be part of a diverse sacramental and worshipping community to our Creator God, to further discover how charismatic and sacramental worship may work together, and to explore more how the arts might inform, interact and inspire ministry, mission, and discipling. Paul loves, amongst other things, cinema and mise en scène, the performing and visual arts, is a member of the LTA, and plays and follows tennis.
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