The Queen has approved the nomination of the Reverend Gillian Nobes MA, currently priest in charge of Highcliffe and assistant area dean of Christchurch in the Diocese of Winchester, to be Rector of St Sampson in the Deanery of Guernsey, in succession to the Reverend Timothy Dack, who resigned on 30 September 2018.

Mrs Nobes will take up her new role in the autumn, on a date to be announced.

Mrs Nobes lived in Guernsey before her ordination in 2012. She held senior roles in the finance industry and was both churchwarden and licensed lay minister (Reader) in the parish of St Saviour.