Amanda Kirstine Ford (known as Mandy; born 1961)[1] is a British Anglican priest who has served as Dean of Bristol since 3 October 2020.
[3] Her father was Sir David Robert Ford, an army officer at the time of her birth who became a civil servant and rose to become Chief Secretary of Hong Kong.
[5] From 1998 to 2000, Ford trained for ordination at St Stephen's House, Oxford.
[5] She would later graduate from the University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Theology (BTh) degree in 2004.
[5] She has am MA degree and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in ethics and biblical interpretation from the University of Nottingham: her doctoral thesis was titled "The self in the mirror of the Scriptures: the hermeneutics and ethics of Paul Ricoeur" and was submitted in 2012.