Rector: The Revd Canon Joanna Abecassis
The Revd Canon Joanna Abecassis has been Rector of the Benefice of Bradford on Avon Holy Trinity, Westwood and Wingfield since 2013, having arrived in the diocese as Priest in Charge of Holy Trinity in 2010.
Following an academic start to her adult life (with a Cambridge degree and PhD in agricultural landownership!), she spent many years at home and as a volunteer, later becoming a lay hospital chaplain in Bristol with responsibility for the large team of chaplaincy volunteers. It was here that her vocation to the priesthood emerged and was affirmed, and from where her passion for pastoral care and accompanying people on their journey, encouraging and affirming, sprung.
She enjoys multi-tasking and so playing her full part in the community, including as a school governor at St Laurence School, Westwood with Iford Primary School and Fitzmaurice Primary School. She has two children, Marie and Jonathan, and four grandchildren, Chiedza, Joshua, Christopher and Eric.