Listening to the Music of the Soul

Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani is Bishop of Chelmsford, having previously been Bishop of Loughborough. In January 2021, she was also appointed as the Lead Bishop for Housing for the Church of England, and she has served as a member of the Lords Spiritual in the House of Lords since November 2021. She is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4s Thought for the Day.

Born in Iran, Guli's family left the country in the wake of the Iranian Revolution in1980, when she was 13 years old, and to date she has been unable to return. She is married to Lee, also a priest and they have three children. She is based in UK.