Penny Sayer
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| title = Archdeacon of Sherborne
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| diocese = Diocese of Salisbury
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| term = November 2018 to present
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| alma_mater = South East Institute for Theological Education
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Penelope Jane Sayer (born 1959) is a British Anglican priest. Since 2018, she has served as Archdeacon of Sherborne in the Church of England's Diocese of Salisbury. She had served in parish ministry in the Dioceses of Chichester and of Chelmsford, before becoming an archdeacon.{{cite news |title=New Archdeacon of Sherborne |url=https://www.salisbury.anglican.org/news/new-archdeacon-of-sherborne |website=Diocese of Salisbury |access-date=4 December 2018 |date=19 July 2018}}
Ordained ministry
Sayer trained for Holy Orders at South East Institute for Theological Education, and was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2007 and as a priest in 2008.{{Crockford| surname = Sayer | forenames = Penelope Jane | id = 3194 | accessed = 4 December 2018}} She served her curacy at St John the Evangelist's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea in the Diocese of Chichester as a non-stipendiary minister (ie unpaid and part-time) between 2007 and 2010.{{cite web |title=Sayer, Ven. Penelope Jane |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-291481 |website=Who's Who 2019 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U291481 |date=1 December 2018|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 }}
She then moved to the Diocese of Chelmsford, where she was team rector of the Parish of Becontree South from 2010 to 2016. She was appointed to a newly created position in 2016 as "Turnaround Minister" for the Bradwell Area of the diocese.{{cite news |title=Meet the new Archdeacon of Sherborne |url=https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/16399658.revd-penny-sayer-to-takeover-as-archdeacon-of-sherborne/ |access-date=4 December 2018 |work=Dorset Echo |date=6 August 2018 |language=en}} She was tasked with assisting struggling parishes, and was also appointed non-stipendiary minister of St Margaret's, Woodham Mortimer and St Michael's, Woodham Walter.
In July 2018, Sayer was announced as the next Archdeacon of Sherborne in the Diocese of Salisbury, in succession to Paul Taylor. She was collated as archdeacon during a service at Sherborne Abbey on 25 November 2018.
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