DAME BISHOP ROSE
HUDSON-WILKIN MBE

Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkins MBE is the Bishop of Dover looking after the Canterbury

Diocese. A child of the 60’s, Bishop Rose was born and spent her formative years, along with her older sister, in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She was raised, during this time, by her paternal aunt after her mother left for England when she was just two years old.

After attending Montego Bay High School for Girls, she joined The Church Army and, in 1982, became a commissioned Evangelist. In 1991 Bishop Rose was ordained a deacon in for The Church of England after training part-time at Queens Theological College and after ordination to the priesthood continued to serve as a priest at St Matthewʼs Church, in Wolverhampton.

She was appointed as a Chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen in 2007 and became the first female Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons in 2010. In November 2019 she was consecrated as a Bishop in the Church of England and installed in Canterbury Cathedral as the Bishop of Dover.