Rt Revd Dr Jill Duff is Bishop of Lancaster. Her brief includes the oversight of mission, evangelism & church planting in Lancashire.

She speaks and teaches widely and has a forthcoming book Lighting the Beacons (SPCK). Previously she was the Founding Director of St Mellitus College North West (2013-2018) the first full-time ordination course in the North West for over 40 years.

She taught New Testament, mission and church planting. She is mum to two teenage boys and married to Canon Prof Jeremy Duff, Principal of St Padarn’s.