Masters of the Bench

Sarah was ordained in 2001 and served her curacy in Battersea, initially as a self-supporting minister. She left her post as Chief Nursing Officer in 2004 to take up full time ministry becoming a Team Rector in the London Borough of Sutton, Surrey in 2006. In 2012 she was installed as Canon Treasurer at Salisbury Cathedral.  She was consecrated on 22 July 2015 at Canterbury Cathedral and was the fourth woman bishop to be appointed by the Church of England, and the first in the South West where she was the Bishop of Crediton in the Diocese of Exeter. 

She was confirmed as the 133rd Bishop of London on 8 March 2018, she is a member of the Privy Council and House of Lords.  She was installed as the Dean of HM Chapels Royal on 12 July 2019 and awarded the Freedom of the City of London on the 25 June 2019.