Frances Elizabeth Fearn Ward (born 16 September 1959) is an Anglican priest and theologian.
[2] From 1987 to 1989, she trained for holy orders at Westcott House, Cambridge, an Anglican theological college in the Liberal Catholic tradition.
[8] On 30 May 2010, it was announced that Ward would be the next Dean of St Edmundsbury in succession to Neil Collings.
[2][10] In July 2017, it was announced that she would be stepping down as Dean later in the year and would be returning to academia to complete a second doctorate; her final service at the cathedral was on 15 October 2017.
[12] Ward belongs to the Catholic Anglican tradition of the Church of England.