Person    | Female  Born 19/1/1961 

Rt. Rev. Rose Hudson-Wilkin, CD, MBE, Bishop of Dover

Categories: Race Issues, Religion

Countries: Jamaica

Rose Josephine Hudson-Wilkin CD MBE KHC is an Anglican prelate, who serves as Suffragan Bishop of Dover in the diocese of Canterbury – deputising for the archbishop – since 2019: she is the first black woman to become a Church of England bishop. Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons, 2010-19, having trained with the Church Army before entering parish ministry.

Born Jamaica. Came to the UK in 1982. She was ordained deacon in 1991 and priest in 1994. For 16 and a half years she served as a priest in Hackney. In 2007 she was appointed as a Chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen and in 2010, she became the 79th (and first female) Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons. Member of the Windrush Commemoration Committee.

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