Charlotte Methuen

Charlotte Mary Methuen, (born 1964) is a British Anglican priest, historian, and academic. Since 2017, she has been Professor of Church History at the University of Glasgow. As an academic she specialises in the Reformation in Germany, 20th-century ecumenism, and women's ministry. She was previously a lecturer at Ruhr University Bochum (University of Bochum), the University of Hamburg, the University of Oxford and Ripon College Cuddesdon. She has served as a priest in the Church of England, Scottish Episcopal Church, and the Old Catholic Church in Germany.

Early life and education Methuen was born in 1964. She was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, a comprehensive school in Ashbourne, Derbyshire.

Academic career and ordained ministry Methuen taught in the Theological Faculty at the University of Hamburg from 1996 to 1997, and Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Bochum from 1997 to 2003. She was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1998 and as a priest in 1999. From 1998 to 2001, she served her curacy in the benefice of East Netherlands (covering Arnhem, Nijmegen and Twenthe) in the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe. She was then a curate in the benefice of Bonn with Cologne from 2001 to 2003. From 2003 to 2005, she was Director of Training for the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe and honorary assistant chaplain at St Boniface, Bonn and All Saints, Cologne.

In 2005, Methuen returned to the United Kingdom and joined the University of Oxford as a departmental lecturer in ecclesiastical history. She was also canon theologian of Gloucester Cathedral from 2007 and a lecturer in church history and liturgy at Ripon College Cuddesdon, an Anglican theological college, from 2009. and is also an honorary assistant priest at St Margaret's, Newlands, Glasgow, a parish church in the Scottish Episcopal Church's Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway.

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