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Dagmar Winter (born 1965) is a bishop in the Church of England. Since 2019, she has served as Bishop of Huntingdon, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Ely. She was previously priest in charge of a large, rural parish in Northumbria (2006–2015), and Rector of Hexham Abbey (2015–2019).
Dagmar Winter | |
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Bishop of Huntingdon | |
Diocese | Diocese of Ely |
In office | 2019 to present |
Predecessor | David Thomson |
Other post(s) | Acting Bishop of Ely (2023–present) |
Orders | |
Ordination | 29 June 1996 (deacon) 28 June 1997 (priest) by Michael Nazir-Ali |
Consecration | 3 July 2019 by Justin Welby |
Personal details | |
Born | 1965 (age 58–59) |
Denomination | Anglicanism |
Winter was born in 1965 and is of British and Swiss-German descent.[1][2] She studied at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg and Heidelberg University in Germany.[3] She trained for ordination at Herborn Theological Seminary from 1993 to 1996, during which she also completed a Doctor of Theology (DrTheol) degree.[1]
Winter was made a deacon at Petertide 1996 (29 June),[4] and ordained a priest the Petertide following year (28 June 1997) — both times by Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester, at Rochester Cathedral.[5] She served her curacy at St Mark's Church, Bromley in the Diocese of Rochester.[1] From 1999 to 2006, she was deanery training officer and associate vicar of Hexham Abbey in the Diocese of Newcastle.[3][6]
From 2006 to 2015, she was priest in charge of Kirkwhelpington, Kirkharle, Kirkheaton and Cambo;[6] a group of rural parishes in Northumberland.[2] During this time she held a number of additional appointments: Diocesan Officer for Rural Affairs in the Diocese of Newcastle (2006–2015),[7] Area Dean of Morpeth (2011-2013),[1] and adviser for women's ministry to the Bishop of Newcastle (2012-2019).[2] She was made an honorary canon of Newcastle Cathedral in 2011.[1] In 2015, she returned to Hexham Abbey having been appointed Rector of Hexham.[8]
Since 2005, Winter has been an elected member of the General Synod of the Church of England.[3] She has served on the Rural Group, the Mission and Public Affairs Committee of the Church of England, and the Meissen Committee (Evangelical Church in Germany–Church of England relations).[2]
In May 2019, it was announced that Winter would be the next Bishop of Huntingdon, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Ely.[6] She was consecrated as a bishop at St Paul's Cathedral on 3 July 2019 by Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury.[9] In the vacancy following Stephen Conway's translation from Ely to Lincoln, Winter is also acting diocesan Bishop of Ely.[10]
In November 2023, she was one of 44 Church of England bishops who signed an open letter supporting the use of the Prayers of Love and Faith (i.e. blessings for same-sex couples) and called for "Guidance being issued without delay that includes the removal of all restrictions on clergy entering same-sex civil marriages, and on bishops ordaining and licensing such clergy".[11]
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