The Rev'd STEPHEN COLEMAN

Fr Stephen was licensed as Priest-in-Charge of the Grosvenor Chapel in November 2023.

Originally from the North East of England, Fr Stephen read Theology as an undergraduate and graduate at the University of Oxford, before training as a lawyer and practising as a corporate and financing solicitor in the City of London. He trained for ordination at Westcott House in Cambridge, and was ordained in 2014. He served as a curate and then as a vicar in parishes in North London.

Fr Stephen is deputy chair of the Mayfair Neighbourhood Forum, and chair of governors at St George’s Hanover Square CE Primary School. He is also a Trustee of the London Diocesan Board for Schools and Chair of the local governing body at the Wren Academy, Enfield.

Fr Stephen has a particular academic interest in ecclesiastical law; he is Assistant Director of the Centre for Law and Religion at Cardiff University and Trustee of the Ecclesiastical Law Society. He is also Chaplain to the Society of Our Lady of Pew at Westminster Abbey. In his spare time he enjoys going to the opera and the theatre, and socialising with friends.

Fr Stephen is married to Roberta, and they have two daughters, Esmé and Celia.