Reverend Canon Madeline Light
Vicar

Madeline.Light@ststephensnorwich.org

Madeline came to England from Australia when she was 3 years old with her English mother and New Zealander father. Her life was turned upside down when her father was disabled by polio and spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Her parents’ faith journey into the Roman Catholic church, with its stories of miracles and routine of prayer and devotion, was added to when she encountered people experiencing the Holy Spirit in a new way in the 1970s. She studied science at university and taught for a couple of years. She married Paul, a Methodist, and together they resolved to attend their local church. When they came to Norwich in 1984 this was the Anglican church. They have four children, all independent, married and with children of their own. Madeline trained for the ordained ministry and was ordained to serve part time in 1999. After her curacy in Eaton she served the elderly congregation at the Great Hospital for seven years. She came to St Stephen’s in 2009 and unexpectedly found herself involved with a huge building project, managing a thriving Café, and trying to work out with the congregation what it means to build a worshipping community in the city centre.