Lena Prince has been in full time ministry for more than forty years. As a parish worker, she served in the parish of Kirkby when the new Team Ministry was being formed, then in the parish of St John, Knotty Ash. Lena was ordained Deaconess in 1966 and spent more than twenty years of distinguished ministry in the parish of St Mary the Virgin, West Derby. When she retired in 1986, she became honorary curate of St Anne's. She was ordained deacon in 1987, and was the first woman to be ordained priest in Liverpool Cathedral in May, 1994. She continues a full time ministry in retirement, and her hobbies include football and visiting!