Miranda Threlfall-Holmes (born 1973) is an Anglican priest who has been the Acting Archdeacon of Liverpool since 2023. She is to become substantive Archdeacon of Liverpool later in the year.

Education and training
Threlfall-Holmes attended Christ's College, Cambridge, reading history and receiving her Bachelor of Arts in 1995 and Master of Arts (Cambridge) in 1997; then she worked in brand management before moving to Durham to study for her doctorate at University College. She received her PhD in 2000 and began training for the Anglican priesthood at Cranmer Hall, Durham the same year, receiving her second BA from St John's College, Durham in 2002.

Ministry
Threlfall-Holmes was made deacon at Petertide 2003 (on 29 June) and ordained priest the following Petertide (4 July 2004), both times by Martin Wharton, Bishop of Newcastle, at Newcastle Cathedral. She began her ordained ministry with a curacy at Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne; then returned to Durham in 2006, becoming chaplain and Solway Fellow at University College until 2012; while in that post she also served as interim Principal of Ustinov College, 2011–2012. Her next post was in parish ministry in the same diocese: as Vicar of Belmont and Pittington; later in her tenure there, she also served as area dean of the Durham (city) deanery, 2016–2017.

Threlfall-Holmes has been Team Rector of the St Luke-in-the-City Team in Liverpool city centre since 2017; she was instituted to the role by Paul Bayes, Bishop of Liverpool, in a service at St Dunstan's on 10 August 2017. Remaining Team Rector, she also became acting Archdeacon of Liverpool part-time, effective 1 February 2023; on 11 June, it was announced she is to become the next substantive archdeacon (leaving St Luke-in-the-City), effective upon her collation, which is scheduled for 9 September 2023.

Campaigning and national roles
She has served intermittently as a Proctor in Convocation (i.e. a clergy member of the General Synod of the Church of England) since 2006. She was first elected to the "Universities (Durham & Newcastle)" constituency of the Convocation of York at a by-election during the 2005–2010 quinquennium; and re-elected to the same constituency in 2010, remaining until her departure from chaplaincy in 2012. She was then elected in 2015 as a Proctor for Durham diocese, remaining until her move to Liverpool in 2017; she was again elected in 2021, this time a Proctor for Liverpool diocese.

, Threlfall-Holmes has been a member of Women and the Church since training for the priesthood, regularly attends Greenbelt Festival and is a council member of Modern Church. She was a national committee member of WATCH, especially during the campaign for women to be ordained bishops in the Church of England.

Bibliography
 PhD thesis — Monks and Markets: Durham Cathedral Priory 1460–1520 (2005, Oxford University Press; )
 Being a Chaplain, edited with Mark Newitt (2011, SPCK; )
 The Essential History of Christianity (2012, SPCK; )
 three poems in Learning to Love, edited by Chris Goan (2014, Proost; )
 The Teenage Prayer Experiment Notebook, with her son Noah Threlfall-Holmes (2015, SPCK; )
 The Little Book of Prayer Experiments (2016, SPCK; )
 The Prayer Experiment Notebook, with Mina Munns (2018, SPCK; )
 How To Eat Bread: 21 Nourishing Ways to Read the Bible (2021, John Murray Press; )

References

1973 births
Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
Alumni of Cranmer Hall, Durham
Alumni of University College, Durham
21st-century Anglican theologians
21st-century English Anglican priests
21st-century English women
British Anglican theologians
Christian feminist theologians
Historians of Christianity
Living people
Women Christian theologians