Helen-Ann Hartley

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Helen-Ann Hartley

Helen-Ann Hartley (* 1973 in Edinburgh , Scotland ) is a British - New Zealand Anglican bishop .

Life

Hartley studied Anglican theology at the University of St Andrews and the Theological Seminary at Princeton University . In 2005 she was ordained an Anglican Deaconess and in 2006 an Anglican Priestess. Hartley was appointed bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Waikato in New Zealand in September 2013 and was ordained on February 22, 2014. She was the first Church of England priestess to be ordained a bishop. On November 9, 2017, it was announced that Hartley had been appointed Bishop of Ripon in the Diocese of Leeds, where she took office on February 4, 2018.

Hartley is married.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Stuff.co.nz Waikato elects first Anglican woman bishop
  2. Oxford.anglican.org: Rejoicing as the Revd Dr Helen-Ann Macleod Hartley is consecrated as Bishop of Waikato and Taranaki
  3. ^ Diocese of Leeds - New Bishop of Ripon (Accessed November 9, 2017)