Christian Chaplains and local faith contacts

• Revd Ed Davis - Anglican and Coordinating Chaplain

  Ed has led the Multifaith Chaplaincy team since 2008. He coordinates the overall work of the Chaplaincy, supports students and staff of any faith or none, and advises the University on faith-related matters. He is particularly interested in facilitating opportunities for encounter between those of different faiths.

  Phone: 0117 42 83115

  Email: ed.davis@bristol.ac.uk

• Revd Sam Hackett - Free Church Chaplain

  Sam trained as a Baptist Minister at the South Wales Baptist College and has a BA in Religious Studies and Theology from Cardiff University. Prior to this role Sam was the Pastor of Ruddington Baptist Church in Nottinghamshire where he served for 9 years. Sam brings his experience in Christian ministry together with an enthusiasm for community, sport, wellbeing and cooking to create an hospitable environment in which others can find support and flourish. As Free Church Chaplain Sam represents a few church traditions and his role is supported by local Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed Churches.

  Email: sam.hackett@bristol.ac.uk

• Clotilde Barberon - Duty Chaplain
  I am currently wearing many hats : MA theology student, Chaplain, Theology teaching assistant and French tutor. What I enjoy most about all the things I do is that I get to learn, meet people and help them where I can, when they allow me to be part of their journey. I also love cooking (being true to my French upbringing), specially which take a long time to make (pasta, patisseries, bread,…) as I am trying to unlearn the pressure to be constantly as fast and time efficiently as possible. I used to be a chaplaincy assistant here and I am so excited to be back in this new capacity as I love and value the way the chaplaincy creates interfaith dialogue and is committed to helping students flourish and thrive during their university experience!
• Father Thomas Skeats - Catholic Chaplain

  Father Thomas has been a member of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) for the past 18 years. His life of service as a priest began in 2010 at the Dominican priory in London, close to Hampstead Heath. He was resident there until 2020, apart from a year away in Durham completing a master’s degree. For the last six years of his time in London, he served as prior of the community and parish priest. In addition to parish and priory responsibilities, he also served as chaplain to two London universities - Imperial and Kings - and often travelled down to Oxford to teach in the Dominican student house. In 2022 the bishop of Clifton asked Fr Thomas to become the new chaplain for the University of Bristol and the UWE. He is now based at the Catholic chaplaincy at 103 Queen’s Road, next to the Students’ Union. In his free time Fr Thomas enjoys wildlife, history, art, and early cinema.

  Email: thomas.skeats@bristol.ac.uk

• Revd Rachel Haig - Baptist Chaplain

  Rachel is the Community Minister at Tyndale Baptist Church, which means that she spends a lot more time outside of the church than in it, and does lots of chatting to people about everything and nothing. She trained at Bristol Baptist College before spending sixteen years working at Horfield Baptist Church, helping them redevelop buildings and open a cafe. In her free time, Rachel enjoys cooking and travelling, and is a lover of all things Middle Earth. She's a fervent Liverpool fan and dabbles in a bit of golf on occasion. But mostly she likes to chat.

  Email: rachelehaig@gmail.com

• David Prosser - Quaker Local Faith Contact
  David is a PhD student in the History department and a member of Redland Quaker Meeting. He previously worked for the BBC’s international charity, BBC Media Action, and moved to Bristol to study for an MA shortly after attending his first Quaker meeting in 2014. David welcomes anyone from a religious or non-theist background who would like to explore the silence of a Quaker meeting, or perhaps learn more about the value Quakers place on Peace, Truth and Equality, or who may simply wish to follow Quaker advice to ‘live adventurously’.

  Email: david.prosser@bristol.ac.uk

• Dave Mitchell - Woodlands Church Local Faith Contact

  Dave Mitchell graduated from Bristol University in 1980 and has been here ever since. Dave is a pastor at Woodlands Church and has had a long association with the Chaplaincy team. Dave enjoys being alive and loves people, music, the countryside and his food.

  Email: dave@woodlandschurch.net

• Archmandrite Kyril Jenner - Eastern Orthodox Local Faith Contact

  Archmandrite Kyril has been the parish priest of the Orthodox Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God, on University Road, since 1999. Before that he was assistant priest in a church in Manchester. Alongside his church work he has supported himself financially through teaching, originally mathematics and statistics in secondary schools and later in a polytechnic (which became a university) teaching software engineering until early retirement in 2005. He still teaches part time with the Open University, and is a trustee of several local and national charities. He also spends time arranging medieval Russian church chant to English texts.

  Email: kyril@felin-newydd.fsnet.co.uk