The Revd Lythan Nevard, Moderator of the United Reformed Church Eastern Synod, has been appointed to a new role: Ecumenical Canon of Ely Cathedral.
Sixteen other clergy, a mix of honorary, lay, emeritus canons, will join Lythan in being collated and installed at a service at the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Ely during Evensong on 23 November.
The news was announced by the Rt Revd Dr Dagmar Winter, Acting Bishop of Ely, in September.
Lythan was ordained in 1992, having trained at Mansfield College Oxford alongside her husband Phil. They met on the URC Ginger Group – a youth project in the 1980’s and married prior to training for ministry.
Lythan’s ministry has spanned URCs in the North East, the London Borough of Havering, the Devon coast and, just prior to becoming Moderator of Eastern Synod, was an ecumenical pioneer minister in the new town of Cranbrook, Devon.
She is passionate about mission and discipleship and encouraging people to think about being church differently.
Of her new appointment Lythan said: “I am thrilled and honoured to become an Ethelreda (ecumenical) Canon at Ely Cathedral. The area shared between Eastern Synod and Ely Diocese is full of thriving ecumenical projects including the two most recent churches to join the URC – at Northstowe and Love’s Farm St Neots.
“I hope that this role as Canon will solidify the good working relationships I have with my Anglican colleagues and lead to further creative ways of working together to share the love of Jesus to our communities.”