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Penelope Jamieson
New Zealand bishop
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Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and Polynesia
- In Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and Polynesia
…1990 in Dunedin, New Zealand, Penelope Jamieson became the first female Anglican bishop to head a diocese. The seat of the primate is in Christchurch.
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Anglicanism
- In Anglicanism: Internal developments
In 1990 New Zealander Penelope Jamieson became the first diocesan bishop, and in 2006 the ECUSA elected Katharine Jefferts Schori as the first woman presiding bishop of any member church of the Anglican Communion. The Church of England formally approved the consecration of women as bishops in 2014. The…
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