{"id":3097,"date":"2021-03-17T11:05:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T11:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2021-03-17T11:05:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T11:05:28","slug":"church-of-england-appoints-first-black-female-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2021\/03\/17\/church-of-england-appoints-first-black-female-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of England appoints first black female bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/06\/107577904_hudsonwilkin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/06\/107577904_hudsonwilkin.jpg 660w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/06\/107577904_hudsonwilkin-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Church of England has appointed its first black female bishop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Rev Dr Rose Hudson-Wilkin, chaplain to the speaker of the House of Commons, has been named as the new Bishop of Dover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Hudson-Wilkin, who was born in Jamaica, said she aimed to ensure that &#8220;hope, love and justice remains at the heart of our changed lives together&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Archbishop of Canterbury said he was &#8220;absolutely delighted&#8221; by her appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Most Rev Justin Welby said she was &#8220;one of the most influential and effective ministers&#8230; through her long service as Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Hudson-Wilkin, who is also a chaplain to the Queen, led prayers at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-kent-48802255#\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has appointed its first black female bishop. The Rev Dr Rose Hudson-Wilkin, chaplain to the speaker of the House of Commons, has been named as the new Bishop of Dover. Dr &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity","category-ethnicity","category-race","category-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}