It is announced today that the Reverend Claire Reynolds has been appointed

Team Vicar in the Northmoor Team, with special responsibility for the parishes

of Okehampton, Inwardleigh, and Belstone with Sticklepath. Clare is presently

Assistant Curate in the parish of St Matthias, St Mark and Holy Trinity, Torquay.

Claire’s academic qualifications are in theology and law. Prior to ordination she

was a practising solicitor specialising in family law, advocating particularly for the

welfare of families with children. Having discerned a call to priesthood, Claire

earned a further theological degree at St Mellitus College here in Devon and was

ordained in 2022. Alongside her curacy in Torquay, Claire serves on a voluntary

basis as our diocesan adviser for people with disabilities and additional needs.

Claire is married to Alastair, a mathematics teacher, with a daughter at university

and a son in the sixth form. The family will move to Okehampton Rectory over

the Christmas school holidays and, subject to the completion of all legal

formalities, Claire will be licensed as Team Vicar on Wednesday, January 7th at

a service at All Saints’, Okehampton at which all will be welcome.

Your prayers are asked for Claire, Al, and their family as they prepare to move

to their new home in December, and for Claire as she prepares for a new stage

in her life and work as a priest.