Anne Elizabeth Hollinghurst (born 4 March 1964) is a Church of England bishop currently serving as Principal of The Queen's Foundation, Edgbaston. She previously served as Bishop of Aston, the suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Birmingham, from September 2015 until September 2024.Early lifeHollinghurst was born on 4 March 1964 to William and Audrey Bailey.[1] She was educated at Range High School, a coeducational secondary school and sixth form in Formby, Merseyside.[2]Her childhood faith was nurtured in the Church of England in the Anglo-Catholic tradition,[3] at St Peter's Church, Formby.[4] Her early ministry was as a youth worker in suburban Sussex at Holy Trinity Cuckfield and then in inner-city Nottingham at St Stephen's Hyson Green with St Leodegarius Basford.[3][5] She entered Trinity College, Bristol, an Open Evangelical Anglican theological college, to train for ordained ministry and graduated from the University of Bristol with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) Theology degree in 1996.[6]