Overview

• An Electoral College at St Pierre in Chepstow confirmed Vann’s election on a two-thirds majority vote on July 30, 2025.
• At 66, Vann becomes both the UK’s first female archbishop and its first openly LGBTQ+ leader in a national church.
• She has pledged to tackle safeguarding failures highlighted by reports of excessive drinking, bullying and blurred boundaries at Bangor Cathedral.
• Her formal enthronement will take place at Newport Cathedral on a date to be announced by the Church in Wales.
• Vann’s clerical career includes her 1994 ordination among the first female priests, eleven years as Archdeacon of Rochdale and service as Bishop of Monmouth since 2020.