Ruth Worsley

The Right Reverend Ruth Worsley
Bishop of Taunton
Church	Church of England
Diocese	Diocese of Bath and Wells
In office	2015 to present
Other posts	Archdeacon of Wiltshire (2013–2015) Honorary Chaplain to the Queen
Orders
Ordination	1996 (deacon) 1997 (priest)
Consecration	29 September 2015 by Justin Welby
Personal details
Born	1962 (age 54–55) Hampton, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Spouse	Howard
Children	Three
Alma mater	University of Manchester St John's College, Nottingham

Ruth Elizabeth Worsley QHC (born 1962) is a Church of England bishop. Since September 2015, she has been the Bishop of Taunton, a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Bath and Wells. From 2013 to 2015, she was Archdeacon of Wiltshire.

Worsley was born in 1962 in Hampton, Middlesex. She studied English literature, theology and biblical studies at the University of Manchester. She was training to be a nurse when she felt the call to ministry and left to take up a position as a lay minister. She trained for ordained ministry at St John's College, Nottingham, an Anglican theological college.

Worsley was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon on 29 September 1996 and as a priest in 1997. She served curacies at St Leodegarius Church, Basford (1996 to 1998) and St Stephen's Church, Hyson Green (1998 to 2001) in Nottingham. From 2001 to 2008, she was priest-in-charge of the benefice of Hyson Green (St Stephen's Church) and Forest Fields. She was also Area Dean of Nottingham North between 2006 and 2008.