Friday, November 10, 2017

Episcopal election makes it three firsts for Scotland’s first female bishop

From ACNS- (more links below)

Fourteen years after the Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC) formally opened the doors to the consecration of women to the episcopate, it has elected its first female bishop. Canon Anne Dyer, currently the Rector of Holy Trinity Church in Haddington, East Lothian, was elected as the new Bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney by the Province’s Episcopal Synod. It is the third “first” for Canon Dyer: In 1987 she was amongst the first group of women to be ordained to the diaconate in the Church of England’s Diocese of Rochester; and also amongst the first group of women in Rochester to be ordained to the priesthood in 1994.

Prior to ordination Anne Dyer read Chemistry at St Anne’s College, Oxford and was a business systems analyst with Unilever before training for ordained ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and studying theology at King’s College London.


More here-

http://www.anglicannews.org/news/2017/11/episcopal-election-makes-it-three-firsts-for-scotlands-first-female-bishop.aspx

and here-

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-41932224

and here-

https://www.premier.org.uk/News/UK/Scottish-Episcopal-Church-names-first-female-bishop

No comments: