Personal details
Full Name:
- Penelope Ann Bansall Jamieson
Lifetime:
- 1942–
Biography
Penny Jamieson
English-born New Zealander Penny Jamieson was the first woman in the world to be ordained a diocesan bishop of the Anglican Church
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29 June 1990World's first female diocesan Anglican bishop appointedDr Penny Jamieson, who had been ordained as a priest in 1985, became the Anglican bishop of Dunedin − the first woman in the world to hold such a position. She retired in 2004. Read more...