1. Vivienne Frances Faull was born on 20 May 1955 and is a British Anglican bishop and Lord Spiritual.
16 Facts About Vivienne Faull
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Vivienne Faull was later a cathedral dean, and the only female cathedral provost in Church of England history, having served as Provost of Leicester from 2000 to 2002.
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Vivienne Faull was educated at The Queen's School, Chester, an all-girls private school.
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Vivienne Faull studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and graduated in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts degree; it was promoted to a Master of Arts in 1982.
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Vivienne Faull served first at the Church of St Matthew and St James, Mossley Hill, Liverpool, and then as Chaplain at Clare College, Cambridge.
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Vivienne Faull was the first woman to become a chaplain of an Oxford or Cambridge University college.
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Vivienne Faull was thought by many to be a leading candidate for the first woman appointed a bishop in the Church of England when canon law was altered in 2014 to allow female bishops, but the first woman to be made a bishop was Libby Lane.
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On 15 May 2018, it was announced that Vivienne Faull would be the next Bishop of Bristol, the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Bristol, in succession to Mike Hill.
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Vivienne Faull officially took up the appointment when she was elected and confirmed on 25 June 2018.
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Vivienne Faull was installed as the 56th Bishop of Bristol at Bristol Cathedral on 20 October 2018 and introduced as a Lord Spiritual at the House of Lords on 23 October.
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On 6 February 2025, Vivienne Faull announced that she intends to retire effective 1 September.
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Vivienne Faull's views have been described as "centrist to liberal" and as "open evangelical".
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In 2013 Vivienne Faull was the target of hate mail during an unsuccessful campaign to have the remains of Richard III interred in York Minster.
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In October 2016 Vivienne Faull was instrumental in the sacking of all the York Minster bellringers with no notice on grounds of safeguarding, and the subsequent suspension of a carillonneur.
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The Archbishop, John Sentamu, decried the way that Vivienne Faull had been "hounded" and said that she was one of the best deans he had ever worked with.
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In 2014, Vivienne Faull was awarded an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree by the University of Gloucestershire "for her outstanding contribution to the church and her work for the equality of women".