The Reverend Jane Leach |
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Principal of Wesley House | |
Assumed office September 2011 |
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Nationality | British |
Alma mater |
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University of Oxford University of Nottingham |
Profession | Minister and theologian |
Religion | Christianity (Methodism) |
Jane Leach is a British Methodist minister and academic, who specialises in pastoral theology. Since September 2011, she has served as Principal of Wesley House, an Methodist theological college in Cambridge. She was also President of the Cambridge Theological Federation from 2015 to 2016.
Leach has degrees in history and theology. She studied at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, the University of Oxford, and the University of Nottingham. She undertook postgraduate research at Nottingham, completing her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1997. Her doctoral thesis was titled "The appeal of faith development theory: a sociological perspective". She trained for ordained ministry at Wesley House, a Methodist theological college in Cambridge.
In 1998, Leach was ordained as a presbyter in the Methodist Church of Great Britain. From 1996 to 2001, she was a circuit minister, with her early ministry spent in the Fenland Methodist Circuit. Since joining Wesley House, she has been a minister of the Cambridge Methodist Circuit.