Trustees

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.

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.

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 Cytûn, Churches Together in Wales

Jennie Hurd is a Methodist presbyter, currently serving as a District Chair in the Synod of the Methodist Church in Wales. She also serves as the Chair of Trustees of Cytûn Churches Together in Wales. Originally from East Yorkshire, Jennie’s initial training for ministry was in Birmingham from 1990-93, and she has served in circuits in Wales and the English Midlands, including as a Superintendent minister. A fluent Welsh speaker, Jennie learned the language as an adult for the sake of her ministry in Wales.
Prior to ministerial training, Jennie worked as Regional Secretary for the Student Christian Movement, and ecumenical work and witness have always been an important part of her ministry. Her doctorate explored the relevance of Grace Jantzen’s concept of natality for theology and pastoral care at the end of life, and Jennie holds firmly to Professor Elaine Graham’s assertion that all theology is practical theology.
Jennie has been married to Pete since 1993. They have two cats, Wilson and Vanessa. Jennie enjoys reading, walking, knitting, swimming and listening to ‘The Archers’.

Nominated by The Church of Scotland

Dr Gemma King currently works as an Intern with the World Communion of Reformed Churches in their office in Hannover, Germany. She is an Elder and member of the Ecumenical Relations Committee of the Church of Scotland. She completed her PhD in the area of History of Christianity and Literature at the University of Edinburgh in 2024 where she also worked as a Tutor and completed her Masters and Undergraduate studies. She has previously served as a trustee of Student Christian Movement Britain.

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 a Local Preacher in the Methodist Church in Ireland and a former Lay Leader of the Conference of that Church. She has been a member of the European Methodist Council and was Vice President of the World Methodist Council from 2014 until 2024. She has been President of the Irish Council of Churches and, for seven years, she was Moderator of the Church Representatives’ Meeting of CTBI. She has a life-long involvement in things ecumenical, both in Ireland and further afield.

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 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 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 Salvation Army

Jonathan has been The Salvation Army’s Divisional Commander for Wales since January 2024 and is a trustee of Cytûn.

After gaining a BA in Economics he entered the Salvation Army officer training college in 1984 and, following his commissioning and ordination in 1986, he led corps (local churches) for the next 19 years in South London and South Wales. During this time he gained a BA in Theology.

In 2006 Jonathan became the Divisional Commander (regional leader) in the East Midlands before moving to The Salvation Army’s International Headquarters in 2010 to take on a role in the Europe Department. While there he completed an Mth in Applied Theology.

Moving to Edinburgh in 2014 he became responsible for The Salvation Army’s public affairs and ecumenical work nationally, including as a trustee of Action of Churches Together in Scotland.

During the past decade Jonathan’s roles have included being editor of the Salvationist magazine and National Ecumenical Officer for The Salvation Army. He has also authored a book titled On the Altar.

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 Principle 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, served as a Trustee and has, for a number of years, held the role of Moderator for the Union’s Racial Justice Working Group. 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 (1) the various proactive work which lead to the Union’s appointment of its first National Secretary for Racial Justice and (2) the Baptist Union Council’s Apology for the denomination’s share and benefit from the transatlantic slave trade. The Apology was presented in 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.