Introduction: ‘Black’ Clergy Voices and the Church of England

The ‘lived experience’ of Black clergy in the CofE has been woefully understudied (Isiorho, 2003). The results intended or not? Black ‘voices’ have been ignored, silenced and invalidated (Hiraldo, 2010; Gambrell, 2016; Blackett, 2017; Dixson, 2018). What a loss this is for the CofE. The present work brings Black voices front and center, to understand their unique experiences and thus to understand more fully and completely the CofE.