The Girl from Montego Bay

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The Girl from Montego Bay

06/04/2025Time1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location
Wren Suite
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Free and unticketed
Bishop Rose is a black woman with sort hair wearing a bishop's robes holding an order of service up in one hand and a bishop's crook in the other, she is emerging from a building with candle light in the background, and smiling to the camera

Rose Hudson-Wilkin is the Church of England’s first black woman bishop. Overcoming challenging beginnings in Jamaica and discrimination in the UK, she became one of the first women to be ordained priest in the Church of England, going on to be the first black female priest to be Chaplain both to the Queen and the Speaker of the House of Commons. She will reflect on ‘a wonderful life and a wonderful God’. 

Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin is the Bishop of Dover. Appointed MBE for services to young people and the church in 2020, her autobiography The Girl from Montego Bay is published in 2025.

Bishop Curry, a black man with grey hair in a clerical collar purple shirt, on stage under the dome of the cathedral, smiling and arms outstretched, alongside a smiling Paula Gooder, a white woman with long blond hair in a grey jacket and red blouse.

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