World peace to be focus for new cathedral canon

A former NHS doctor who has been appointed as a canon at Coventry Cathedral says she wants to create a culture of peace in a divided world.

Reverend Canon Kate Massey is currently a vicar in Stockingford, Warwickshire, and will take up the role in June which will focus on the arts and reconciliation.

She said "in an increasingly polarised world" Coventry's "vocation to reconciliation is more timely than ever".

The cathedral is well-known as a centre for reconciliation since the destruction of the city's Old Cathedral in World War Two.

Rev Canon Massy added it would be a "joy and an honour to serve" as the team explores "ways to heal the wounds of history, celebrate difference and build a culture of justice and peace".

Before she was ordained, she specialised in mental health and psychiatry when she was a doctor, a cathedral spokesperson said.

She would bring a "wealth of practical and pastoral experience" and was currently studying for a PhD on the reconciliation work of the cathedral, they added.

Rev Canon Massy follows the Right Reverend Mary Gregory who left the role in November when she was appointed Bishop of Reading.

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