Beverley Mason

Beverley Anne Mason (called Bev; born August 1960) is a British Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Warrington, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Liverpool, from 2018 until 2025. After parish ministry in the Dioceses of Rochester, Southwark and Bradford, her final post before becoming a bishop was as the Archdeacon of Richmond and Craven in the Diocese of Leeds from 2016 to 2018.

Early life and education Mason was born in August 1960, in Germany. She trained for ordained ministry at Trinity College, Bristol, an evangelical Anglican theological college. During this time, she also studied theology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 2000. After a further year of training, she left theological college to be ordained.

Ordained ministry Mason was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2001 and as a priest in 2003. She was additionally Area Dean of Croydon North between 2010 and 2012. She was made Vicar of All Saints a year later. She took up the appointment of archdeacon in 2016. She was consecrated as a bishop at York Minster by John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, on 18 October 2018. She was officially welcomed into the diocese during a service at Liverpool Cathedral on 17 November 2018. In the vacancy following Paul Bayes' retirement, Mason became acting diocesan Bishop of Liverpool.

In April 2024, it was stated that she was away from the diocese and not carrying out any engagements, for reasons not thought related to her health. In January 2025, it was made public that John Perumbalath, Bishop of Liverpool, had been accused by one woman of sexual assault and by a female bishop of sexual harassment, and he retired. Mason then stated in a pastoral letter to the Diocese of Liverpool that she was the female bishop in question.

In April 2025, while still on leave from the Diocese of Liverpool, Mason was appointed an honorary assistant bishop of the Diocese of St Asaph, part of the Church in Wales. In a statement on the Diocese of Liverpool's website she remarked: "I look forward with hope to a restored and renewed ministry in the Province of the Church in Wales. [...] I remain Bishop of Warrington as I continue to wait and push for a proper resolution to my unhappy situation. Today [4 April 2025], it is 574 days since I exercised an episcopal ministry.". In September 2025 it was announced that she would resign from being bishop of Warrington; she duly resigned her See effective 1 October 2025.