List of female Anglican bishops

The following is a list of female Anglican bishops in diocesan, suffragan, area, and assistant roles.

Primate Bishops

• Katharine Jefferts Schori (Episcopal Church, 2006-2015)
• Linda Nicholls (Anglican Church of Canada, 2019–2024)
  • Anne Germond (acting primate 2024–present)
• Marinez Santos Bassotto (Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil, 2022-present)

Metropolitans

Bishops or archbishops in charge of an internal ecclesiastical province but not being primates.

• Kay Goldsworthy (Archbishop of Perth, and Metropolitan of Western Australia, 2017–present)
• Melissa M. Skelton (Archbishop of New Westminster and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon, 2018–2021)
• Anne Germond (Archbishop of Algoma and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario, 2018–present)
• Lynne McNaughton (Archbishop of Kootenay and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon, 2021–2024)

Diocesan bishops

Anglican Church of Canada

Ontario

• Anne Germond ((Arch)Bishop of Algoma, 2017–present)
• Susan Bell (Bishop of Niagara, 2018–present)

Northern Lights

• Victoria Matthews (Bishop of Edmonton, 1997-2007)
• Jane Alexander (Bishop of Edmonton, 2008–2021)
• Helen Kennedy, Bishop of Qu'Appelle, 2022-present)
• Lydia Mamakwa (Indigenous Spiritual Ministry of Mishamikoweesh, 2014–present)
• Rachael Parker (Bishop of Brandon, 2024-present)

Canada

• Sandra Fyfe (Bishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, 2020–present)
• Mary Irwin-Gibson (Bishop of Montreal, 2015–present)
• Sue Moxley (Bishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, 2007-2014)

British Columbia and Yukon

• Melissa Skelton ((Arch)bishop of New Westminster, 2013–2021)
• Clara Plamondon (Territory of the People, 2024–present)
• Lesley Wheeler-Dame (Bishop of Yukon, 2019–present)
• Anna Greenwood-Lee (Bishop of British Columbia, 2021-present)

Barbara Andrews, Suffragan to the Metropolitan, was effectively diocesan bishop of the Territory of the People

Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia

• Wai Quayle (Te Pīhopa o Te Upoko o Te Ika, 2019–present)
• Victoria Matthews (Bishop of Christchurch, 2008-2018)
• Helen-Ann Hartley (Bishop of Waikato, 2014–2018; co-equal diocesan)
• Penny Jamieson (Bishop of Dunedin, 1989-2004)

It was announced on December 6, 2024 that Anne van Gend would become the eleventh Bishop of Dunedin. ^[1]

Anglican Church of Australia

• Kay Goldsworthy (Bishop of Gippsland, 2015-2017; Archbishop of Perth, 2017-present)
• Sarah Macneil (Bishop of Grafton, 2014-2018)

Anglican Church of Kenya

• Emily Onyango (Diocese of Bondo, 2021–present)
• Rose Okeno (Diocese of Butere, 2021-)

Anglican Church of Mozambique and Angola

• Filomena Tete Estevão (Bishop of Bom Pasteur, 2023–present)

Anglican Church of Southern Africa

• Ellinah Wamukoya (Bishop of Swaziland, 2012-2020)
• Margaret Vertue (Bishop of False Bay, 2012–2023)
• Vicentia Kgabe (Bishop of Lesotho, 2021–present)
• Dalcy Badeli Dlamini (Bishop of Swaziland, 2021–present)

Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil

• Marinez Santos Bassotto (Bishop of Amazon, 2018–present)

Episcopal Church of Cuba

• Griselda Delgado Del Carpio (Bishop of Cuba, 2010–present)

Church of England

Diocesan Bishops

• Rachel Treweek (Bishop of Gloucester, 2015–present)
• Christine Hardman (Bishop of Newcastle, 2015-2021)
• Sarah Mullally (Bishop of London, 2018–present)
• Viv Faull (Bishop of Bristol, 2018–present)
• Libby Lane (Bishop of Derby, 2019–present)
• Guli Francis-Dehqani (Bishop of Chelmsford, 2021–present)
• Helen-Ann Hartley (Bishop of Newcastle, 2023–present)
• Tricia Hillas (Bishop of Sodor and Man, 2024-present)

Acting Diocesan Bishops

• Ruth Worsley (Acting Bishop of Bath and Wells, 2020–2022)
• Debbie Sellin (Acting Bishop of Winchester, 2021–2023)
• Karen Gorham (Acting Bishop of Salisbury, 2021–2022)

De facto Diocesan Bishops

• Rose Hudson-Wilkin (Bishop of Dover, Bishop in Canterbury, 2019–present)

Church of Ireland

• Pat Storey (Bishop of Meath and Kildare, 2013–present)

Scottish Episcopal Church

• Anne Dyer (Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, 2018–present)

Church of South India

• Pushpa Lalitha (Bishop of Nandyal, 2013–present)

Church in Wales

• Joanna Penberthy (Bishop of St David's, 2016 – present)
• June Osborne (Bishop of Llandaff, 2017–2022)
• Cherry Vann (Bishop of Monmouth, 2020–present)
• Mary Stallard (Bishop of Llandaff, 2023–present)

Episcopal Church (United States)

Province I

• Mary Adelia McLeod (Bishop of Vermont, 1993-2001)
• Geralyn Wolf (Bishop of Rhode Island, 1996-2012)
• Chilton R. Knudsen (Bishop of Maine, 1998-2008)
• Shannon MacVean-Brown (Bishop of Vermont, 2019–present)
• Julia Whitworth (Bishop of Massachusetts, 2024–present)

Province II

• DeDe Duncan-Probe (Bishop of Central New York, 2016–present)
• Carlye J. Hughes (Bishop of Newark, 2018–present)
• Sally French (Bishop of New Jersey, 2023–present)
• Kara Wagner Sherer (Bishop of Rochester, 2024–present)

Province III

• Mariann Budde (Bishop of Washington, 2011–present)
• Audrey Scanlan (Bishop of Central Pennsylvania, 2015–present)
• Susan Bunton Haynes (Bishop of Southern Virginia, 2020–present)
• Ketlen A. Solak (Bishop of Pittsburgh, 2021–present)
• Carrie Schofield-Broadbent (Bishop of Maryland, 2023–present)

Province IV

• Phoebe Alison Roaf (Bishop of West Tennessee, 2019–present)
• Glenda S. Curry (Bishop of Alabama, 2021–present)
• Ruth Woodliff-Stanley (Bishop of South Carolina, 2021–present)
• Shannon Rogers Duckworth (Bishop of Louisiana, 2022–present)
• Dorothy Sanders Wells (Bishop of Mississippi, 2024–present)

Province V

• Catherine Waynick (Bishop of Indianapolis, 1997-2017)
• Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows (Bishop of Indianapolis, 2017–present)
• Bonnie Perry (Bishop of Michigan, 2020–present)
• Paula Clark (Bishop of Chicago, 2022–present)
• Anne B. Jolly (Bishop of Ohio, 2023–present)
• Kristin Uffelman White (Bishop of Southern Ohio, 2024–present)

Province VI

• Kimberly Lucas (Bishop of Colorado, 2019–present)
• Martha Elizabeth Stebbins (Bishop of Montana, 2019–present)
• Betsey Monnot (Bishop of Iowa, 2021–present)

Province VII

• Cathleen Chittenden Bascom (Bishop of Kansas, 2019–present)

Province VIII

• Carolyn Tanner Irish (Bishop of Utah, 1996-2010)
• Mary Gray-Reeves (Bishop of El Camino Real, 2007-2020)
• Nedi Rivera (Provisional Bishop of Eastern Oregon, 2009-2015)
• Gretchen Rehberg (Bishop of Spokane, 2017–present)
• Susan Brown Snook (Bishop of San Diego, 2019–present)
• Jennifer Anne Reddall (Bishop of Arizona, 2019–present)
• Megan M. Traquair (Bishop of Northern California, 2019–present)
• Lucinda Ashby (Bishop of El Camino Real, 2020–present)
• Diana Akiyama (Bishop of Oregon, 2021–present)
• Elizabeth Bonforte Gardner (Bishop of Nevada, 2022–present)
• Phyllis A. Spiegel (Bishop of Utah, 2022–present)
• Melissa M. Skelton (Provisional Bishop of Olympia, 2023–present)

Other

• Ann Ritonia (Bishop of the Armed Services and Federal Ministries, 2023–present)

Suffragan bishops

Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia

• Eleanor Sanderson (Anglican Diocese of Wellington Assistant Bishop, 2017–2022)
• Anashuya Fletcher was made Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Wellington in April 2024 ^[2]

Anglican Church of Australia

• Kay Goldsworthy (Assistant Bishop, Anglican Diocese of Perth, 2008–2015)
• Barbara Darling (Assistant Bishop for Diocesan Ministries, Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, 2008-2009, Assistant Bishop (Eastern Region), Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, 2009-2015)
• Genieve Blackwell (Assistant Bishop, Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, 2012-2015; Assistant Bishop (Marmingatha Episcopate), Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, 2015–present)
• Alison Taylor (Assistant Bishop (Southern Region), Anglican Diocese of Brisbane, 2013–2017)
• Kate Wilmot (Assistant Bishop, Anglican Diocese of Perth, 2015–present)
• Sonia Roulston (Assistant Bishop (Inland Episcopate), Anglican Diocese of Newcastle, 2018–present)
• Kate Prowd (Assistant Bishop (Oodthenong Episcopate), Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, 2018–present)
• Denise Ferguson (Assistant Bishop, Anglican Diocese of Adelaide, 2019–present)
• Carol Wagner (Assistant Bishop, Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, 2020–2024)
• Sarah Plowman (Assistant Bishop and Bishop for the Northern Region, Brisbane, 2024–)
• Sophie Relf-Christopher (Assistant Bishop, Anglican Diocese of Adelaide, 2024-)
• Vanessa Bennett (Assistant Bishop, Canberra and Goulburn, 2024-)

Anglican Church of Canada

• Victoria Matthews (Anglican Diocese of Toronto, 1993-1997)
• Ann Tottenham (Anglican Diocese of Toronto, 1997-2005)
• Sue Moxley (Anglican Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, 2004-2007)
• Linda Nicholls (Anglican Diocese of Toronto, 2008-2016)
• Barbara Andrews (Bishop Suffragan to the Metropolitan {effectively, diocesan bishop} with responsibilities for the Territory of the People, 2009–present)
• Riscylla Walsh Shaw (Bishop of Trent-Durham, 2016–present)
• Jenny Andison (Bishop of York-Credit Valley, 2016–present)
• Annie Ittoshat (Suffragan Bishop of the Arctic, 2019–present)
• Lucy Netser (Suffragan Bishop of the Arctic, 2019–present)

Church of England

Canterbury Province

• Sarah Mullally (Bishop of Crediton in the Diocese of Exeter, 2015-2018)
• Anne Hollinghurst (Bishop of Aston in the Diocese of Birmingham, 2015–present)
• Ruth Worsley (Bishop of Taunton in the Diocese of Bath and Wells, 2015–present)
• Karen Gorham (Bishop of Sherborne in the Diocese of Salisbury, 2016–present)
• Jan McFarlane (Bishop of Repton in the Diocese of Derby, 2016-2020)
• Jo Bailey Wells (Bishop of Dorking in the Diocese of Guildford, 2016–present)
• Guli Francis-Dehqani (Bishop of Loughborough in the Diocese of Leicester, 2017-2021)
• Rose Hudson-Wilkin (see above, Bishop of Dover, de facto diocesan bishop of Canterbury, 2019–present)
• Sarah Bullock (Bishop of Shrewsbury in the Diocese of Lichfield, 2019–present)
• Dagmar Winter (Bishop of Huntingdon in the Diocese of Ely, 2019–present)
• Debbie Sellin (Bishop of Southampton in the Diocese of Winchester, 2019–present)
• Ruth Bushyager (Bishop of Horsham in the Diocese of Chichester, 2020–present)
• Jane Mainwaring (Bishop of Hertford in the Diocese of St Albans, 2023–present)

York Province

• Libby Lane (Bishop of Stockport in the Diocese of Chester, 2015-2019)
• Alison White (Bishop of Hull in the Diocese of York, 2015–2022)
• Eleanor Sanderson (Bishop of Hull in the Diocese of York, 2022–present)
• Helen-Ann Hartley (Bishop of Ripon (Area bishop) in the Diocese of Leeds, 2018–present)
• Jill Duff (Bishop of Lancaster in the Diocese of Blackburn, 2018–present)
• Sarah Clark (Bishop of Jarrow in the Diocese of Durham, 2018–present)
• Emma Ineson (Bishop of Penrith in the Diocese of Carlisle, 2019–present)
• Flora Winfield (Bishop-designate of Selby in the Diocese of York, 2024–)

Province of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan

• Elizabeth Awut Ngor (Diocese of Rumbek, 2016–present)

Episcopal Church of Cuba

• Nerva Cot Aguilera (Diocese of Cuba, 2007-2010)

Episcopal Church (United States)

Province I

• Barbara Harris (Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, 1989-2003)
• Gayle Harris (Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, 2003–2022)
• Laura J. Ahrens (Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, 2007–present)

Province II

• Catherine S. Roskam (Episcopal Diocese of New York, 1996-2012)

Province III

• Jane Dixon (Episcopal Diocese of Washington, 1992-2002)
• Carol Joy W.T. Gallagher (Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia, 2002-2005)
• Susan Goff (Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, 2012–present)
• Heather Cook (Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, 2014-2015)
• Jennifer Brooke-Davidson (Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, 2019–present)

Province IV

• Anne Hodges-Copple (Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, 2013–present)

Province VII

• Dena Harrison (Episcopal Diocese of Texas, 2006-2019)
• Kathryn McCrossen Ryan (Episcopal Diocese of Texas, 2019–present)

Province VIII

• Mary Glasspool (Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, 2010-2016)
• Diane Jardine Bruce (Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, 2010–present)

See also

• List of women bishops in the Anglican Church of Australia
• List of Anglican Communion dioceses
• Ordination of women in the Anglican Communion

References

1. https://www.anglicantaonga.org.nz/news/tikanga_pakeha/dunedin_anne
2. https://community.scoop.co.nz/2024/04/wellington-anglicans-welcome-anashuya-fletcher-as-assistant-bishop/