Associate Priest

The Rev. Dr. Helen Ryding

Helen was ordained to the diaconate and to the priesthood in 2008 and has since served as associate priest at the Cathedral Church of All Saints’. Helen also celebrates the Holy Eucharist at the Chapel of King's College University once a week. Outreach work is one of her several activities at the cathedral. She was granted the degree of M. Div. by the Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax. Helen graduated in dentistry from Queen's University Belfast and practised dentistry from 1964 until her retirement from the Faculty of Dentistry, Dalhousie University, in 2006. She has served in private practice, public dental health and academic dentistry. She was granted the degree of M.Sc. by The University of Manitoba. She is married to David Lyttle. They emigrated to Canada in 1968 and have three children; two sons and a daughter, a daughter-in-law, a son-in-law, and two grand-daughters.