Nominated by the Board of Trustees
Graham is an ordained minister within the Baptist Union of Great Britain. Having served two local pastorates, he went on to lead the work of the Faith and Unity Department at Baptist House, including representing BUGB as its National Ecumenical Officer. In 2011 he became President of Luther King Centre in Manchester, an ecumenical partnership for theological education that has the particular task of preparing people for ministry within the main nonconformist traditions within the UK. As well as offering leadership to the partnership, he teaches Christian Spirituality and in particular its relationship to the visual arts. He is a Patron of the Retreat Association.
Nominated by the Board of Trustees
Born in 1941. Educated at English College Valladolid Spain and Christ’s College at the University of Cambridge. Ordained priest 1964. Financial Secretary for Diocese of Southwark from 1968 to 1998. Part of Millennium team at Church House 1998-2000. Parish Priest St. Mary’s Blackheath 2000 to date.
Trustee and Administrator of a number of charities, Chair of Governors of two schools, Member of Scrutiny Committees of two London Boroughs and Chair of the Historic Churches Committee for South of England.
Co-opted – nominated by the Board of Trustees
Alan Anderson grew up in Glasgow Methodism. After offering for ministry in the Methodist Church he trained at the ecumenical Queens College in Birmingham. He served in three English circuits before returning to Scotland as Chair of the Methodist Synod. During his time as Chair he was also at times Chair of Glasgow Churches Together and a vice-convenor of ACTS. His final years of circuit ministry were as Superintendent of the Glasgow (later Strathclyde) Circuit. He has recently stepped down as Ecumenical and Interfaith Officer of the Methodist Church in Scotland and from the Board of Interfaith Scotland.
Alan has been a Trustee of CTBI since 2016 and a member of its Finance and General Purposes committee since 2017.
Nominated by Cytûn, Churches Together in Wales
Patrick is the Chair of Cytûn, Churches Together in Wales. He is retired from a career in the National Health Service. He trained in Medicine in London, qualifying in 1969. He then trained as a surgeon, becoming a Consultant in Neath and Port Talbot. He was Medical Director of the Glan-y-Môr then Bro Morgannwg NHS Trusts before working in the development of Clinical Governance with the Clinical Governance Support and Development Unit in Wales.
Since retirement he has been vice-chair of the Confidentiality Advisory Group within the Health Research Authority and Chair of the Wales Information Governance Board.
In the past he was National Secretary and subsequently Master of the Guild of Catholic Doctors which is now the Catholic Medical Association.
In the 1990s and 2000s he was a Board Member of HCPT, the Hosanna House and Children’s Pilgrimage Trust for fifteen years and Chair for nine years. He also served on the Board of the Irish Pilgrimage Trust for nine years.
Patrick is Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory.
Nominated by Unification Council of Cherubim and Seraphim Churches UK
Special Apostle Dr Richard Fasunloye is a member of the Unification Council of Cherubim and Seraphim Churches UK. He has previously represented his Church on a variety national and international ecumenical bodies, including the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe.
Nominated by the Church of Ireland
Rt Rev Andrew Forster was consecrated as the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe in the Church of Ireland in 2019. He was appointed Vice President of the Irish Council of Churches in 2020, and has served as President since 2022. He was appointed a trustee of CTBI in September 2020.
Nominated by Churches Together in England (CTE)
Bishop Paul is auxiliary Bishop of Southwark and a member of the Bishops’ Conference Department for Dialogue and Unity. Within the department he has specific responsibility for engagement with the Ecumenical Instruments, and therefore ideally placed to act as a Trustee of CTBI.
Nominated by Action for Churches Together in Scotland (ACTS)
Rev Alexander Horsburgh (known as Sandy) is a parish minister in the Church of Scotland. He has served in parishes in Orkney, Stirlingshire, London and Dalkeith, the latter since 2004. In May 2022, he completed a four-year term as Convener of the Church of Scotland’s Ecumenical Relations Committee, which included representing the Church of Scotland on the ACTS Members’ Meeting.
Other ecumenical experience includes serving as a member of the Executive Committee of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and subsequently as secretary of the Europe Area of the World Communion of Reformed Churches. His previous involvement with CTBI was as a member of the Racial Justice Network. He was a delegate at the 11th WCC Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany in 2022.
Nominated by The Church of Scotland
Ms Gemma King is a member of the Church of Scotland’s Ecumenical Relations Committee. She is currently in the final semester of a PhD in the area of History of Christianity and Literature at the University of Edinburgh, where she also completed her Master’s and Undergraduate studies. She worked as a tutor in the University of Edinburgh School of Divinity and serves as an Elder in Colinton Parish Church of the Church of Scotland.
Nominated by ICC
Gillian was born and educated in Cork, Ireland and has a degree in English Language and Literature from Trinity College, Dublin University. She is interim Vice President of the World Methodist Council and a member of the European Methodist Council. She is exLay Leader of the Conference of the Methodist Church in Ireland and has been Director of the Glenstal Ecumenical Conference and President of the Irish Council of Churches. She has a life-long involvement in things ecumenical, both in Ireland and further afield. For seven years she was Moderator of the Church Representatives’ Meeting of CTBI.
Nominated by The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
A former clerk of the Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relations (QCCIR), Mark represented The Religious Society of Friends as a member of CTE’s Enabling Group. Mark is currently Co-Chair of Churches Together in Lincoln and District.
In an earlier career as a lecturer in history, Mark’s work focussed on Reformation print media and, latterly, on representations of peace and conflict. Mark currently serves as a Quaker chaplain in higher education, working within a team of faith traditions in providing support to university members and promoting dialogue within the local community.
Co-opted – nominated by the Board of Trustees
Rosemarie has lived in the UK most of her life, after moving here from Barbados as a child. Her career post-University started in Tanzania, East Africa, where she worked as a historian and development sociologist. She also worked in Ethiopia as a gender and development consultant. She then moved back to Barbados and worked there as a Research Fellow in gender and development. After 2 years, she returned to the UK to undertake doctoral studies at the University of Warwick (1991 – 1994). This was undertaken alongside working as a Research Sociologist for the Medical Research Council, based at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College in south London.
Through her commitment to bringing faith to the public square, Rosemarie discerned a call to ministry, and after ordination training was ordained in 2004. For 16 years, she served as a parish priest in inner-city churches in south London, and as chair of the board of governors of two local church schools. From 2015 to 2020, she also served as the Director of the Department of Justice, Peace & the Integrity of Creation in the Diocese of Southwark. In March 2021, she was appointed Archdeacon of Croydon, and in June 2022 was consecrated as Bishop of Croydon.
From 2010 to 2021, Rosemarie served as a member of the General Synod of the Church of England, as one of the Synod Chairs for 5 years, and on several Archbishop’s council committees, including Turning Up the Volume, the Women in the Episcopate Steering Committee, and the Pastoral Advisory Group. Rosemarie is chair of the Southwark Diocesan Board of Education and also Chair of the Church Commissioners’ Oversight Group to advise on response to historic links to transatlantic slavery.
Rosemarie is a Fellow of the Westminster Abbey Institute and a Visiting Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge.
Nominated by the Catholic Bishops’ Council of England & Wales
Fr. Jan Nowotnik is a priest of the Archdiocese of Birmingham. He studied for the priesthood at the English College in Valladolid, Spain and was ordained in November 1998. Following his ordination, he worked in various parishes and pastoral settings within the Archdiocese of Birmingham before moving to Rome in September 2015 to begin further studies in theology. He specialised in Ecumenical and Interreligious dialogue and received his theology license in 2017. During that time, he became a member of the Russell Berrie Foundation’s John Paul II Centre for Interreligious dialogue and continues to support the foundation in encouraging interreligious dialogue. He is currently completing his PHD in theology.
Since September 2020 he has been Director of Mission and National Ecumenical Officer for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.
Nominated by the Baptist Union of Great Britain
Rev Andrew Openshaw is currently a Regional Minister of the Central Baptist Association. He has been active in the life of the wider Baptist denomination throughout his ministry, serving both the Central and Eastern Baptist Associations in a variety of roles. He currently represents the Baptist Union at the Church of England’s Council for Christian Unity.
Nominated by the Church of England
Bishop John comes from the ancient Christian community in Kerala, South India and was ordained into the Church of North India in 1994. He moved to the UK in 2001 taking up positions in the Diocese of Rochester. Bishop John then served as Archdeacon of Barking before becoming the Bishop of Bradwell in 2018 and in 2023 was appointed the 9th Bishop of Liverpool.
Amongst other roles, Bishop John is the Chair of Churches Refugee Network of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. He is the Church of England’s Lead Bishop on Churches Together in Britain and Ireland relations and a trustee of CTBI. He serves on the Anglican Communion-wide Advisory Group of USPG, an Anglican mission society. The Bishop lectures widely on faith and social engagement and in Biblical theology.
Bishop John demonstrates the influence of the evangelical, Anglo-Catholic and Oriental Orthodox traditions that shaped his theology and contributed to his formation and follows a Benedictine framework of spirituality. He has served in catholic and evangelical parishes and has been known as a unifying leader in situations of conflict.
Bishop John is married, with one adult daughter. He is a keen walker and enjoys reading poetry and novels from various parts of the world.
Nominated by the Salvation Army
Jonathan was born in Cornwall, but spent his childhood in Ghana, Pakistan, and India with his Salvation Army officer parents.
In 1984, after gaining a BA in Economics, he entered the Salvation Army officer training college. Following his commissioning and ordination in 1986 he led corps (local churches) for the next 19 years in Caterham, Plumstead, Cwmbran and Cardiff. During this time, he gained a BA in Theology with the Open Theological College.
In 2005 Jonathan moved to Nottingham to become Director for Evangelism (mission enabler) in the East Midlands Division, and a year later became Divisional Commander (regional leader) there. A move to The Salvation Army’s International Headquarters followed in 2010, where he served as Under Secretary for Europe and completed his Mth in Applied Theology through Spurgeon’s Baptist College.
Moving to Edinburgh in 2014 he became Assistant Secretary for Scotland, responsible for public affairs and ecumenical work nationally, including as a trustee of Action of Churches Together in Scotland.
In 2016 Jonathan became the Ecumenical Officer at the UK and Ireland headquarters. After only a year, however, he was appointed editor of the weekly Salvationist magazine. While in that role he completed work on his book, On the Altar, which was published in 2019. In July 2022 he returned – very happily! – to the role of Ecumenical Officer.
Since 1986 Jonathan has been married to Jayne, who is also a Salvation Army officer. They have four adult children. He enjoys reading, writing, running, and cycling.
Co-opted – nominated by the Board of Trustees
Jamaican by birth, Pat grew up in Brixton in south London. She is a member of Brixton Baptist Church (Kenyon) where she came to faith at the age of 16. Having initially trained in art and design Pat later gained a degree in Psychology followed by a Diploma in Youth and Community Studies. After working in interior design for a time she responded to her calling to youth work, this included a significant period as Principal Youth Officer for a local authority. Pat went on to become a part time tutor and lecturer at the Oasis College on their Youth Work and Ministry Course.
Reflecting her professional life, Pat’s work in her local church has been in children and youth ministry. She has served as a member of the Baptist Union Council and also as a Trustee and held the role of Moderator for the Union’s Racial Justice Working Group for a number of years. During this period, she contributed a great deal to the enormous expansion of the Baptist Union’s race justice work, the two most significant being (i) the various proactive work which led to the Union’s appointment of its first National Secretary for Racial Justice and (ii) the Baptist Union Council’s Apology for the denomination’s share and benefit from the transatlantic slave trade. This apology was presented to the Jamaican Baptist Union in 2007.
Ecumenically Pat has had an active involvement in the Council of European Churches Assemblies and with the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe where she served as Deputy Moderator for two terms and has remained committed to CCME’s Agenda. Her involvement in the work of the Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) was through the organisation’s racial justice agenda delivered by their Racial Justice Desk namely the Churches’ Commission for Racial Justice (CCRJ). Pat was, for a significant amount of time, Deputy Moderator for the CCRJ and Moderator for CCRJ Ecumenical Racial Justice Fund.
Pat is a Lay Magistrate on both the Youth and Adult Bench and has served in this capacity for a number of years.
