Canon Zoë

The Reverend Canon Zoë King TSSF
Ministry Area Leader and Vicar at All Saints’ Church

Tel: 01446 701206
Email: zoeking@churchinwales.org.uk

Zoë has direct responsibility for All Saints’ Church and leads the team as Ministry Area Leader (as such, she is responsible with the subwardens for St Cadoc’s during their vacancy). She was made a Canon of the Greater Chapter of Llandaff Cathedral on 28 November 2022.

I was born in Oxford in 1972 and shortly afterwards my father joined the Army Catering Corps so I spent my childhood moving around from Aldershot in Hampshire, Catterick in North Yorkshire, Cyprus and 2 postings in West Germany as it was.  During my sixth form the Berlin Wall came down and to be in Germany at that time was quite special.  My father retired from the Army and we returned to Caerphilly.

Prior to Ministry I was a primary school teacher but whilst training for that had a variety of holiday jobs from working on the pork pie line and packing Cornish pasties in Peter’s Pies and as maybe a foretaste of what was to come working in the majestic holiday home on Barry Island in the Ice Cream Parlour.

I trained at St Michael’s College in Llandaff for ministry — I joked at the time it was the only way I could get out of being Church Sub-Warden. I was ordained to the Diaconate in 2006 and then ordained Priest in 2007 — I had a happy curacy in Neath and then moved for my first incumbency all of 0.9 miles to next door Briton Ferry in 2010.  Then due to the majority of clergy leaving the deanery I ended up as Area Dean in 2012 finding out on my 40th — I’ll be honest it didn’t feel the best present! In 2014 I was also professed as a Tertiary in the Third Order of Saint Francis (TSSF).

I then moved to Tongwynlais in 2015 to be their priest and also the Initial Ministerial Education officer which was working alongside the curates of the diocese aiding in their training.

Now I’m here and it’s glorious. I’ve been very blessed in all the places I’ve had the privilege to minister — I’m a strong believer in the phrase ‘failure is an option’ because simply it means you’ve tried and not just sat back and more often than not our successes far outweigh our failures.