Sarah Mullally


Dame Sarah Mullally

Bishop of London
Official portrait, 2019
ChurchChurch of England
ProvinceCanterbury
DioceseLondon
Elected25 January 2018
Installed12 May 2018
PredecessorRichard Chartres
Other post(s)
Orders
Ordination2001 (deacon)
2002 (priest)
Consecration22 July 2015
by Justin Welby
Personal details
Born
Sarah Elisabeth Bowser

(1962-03-26) 26 March 1962 (age 62)
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglican
ResidenceCity of London
Spouse
Eamonn Mullally
(m. 1987)
Children2
Alma mater
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Spiritual
Assumed office
24 May 2018

Dame Sarah Elisabeth Mullally DBE (née Bowser; born 26 March 1962) is a British Anglican prelate and former nurse. Bishop of London since 2018,[1][2][3] she is the first woman to hold this office and sits on the Lord Spiritual benches in the House of Lords.

From 1999 to 2004, she was Chief Nursing Officer for England and the National Health Service's director of patient experience for England; from 2015 to 2018, she served as Bishop of Crediton, a suffragan bishop in the diocese of Exeter.

  1. ^ "Sarah Mullally installed as first female Bishop of London". BBC News. 2018. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Next Bishop of London announced". Diocese of London. 18 December 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  3. ^ Diocese of London — Mullally's installation as Bishop of London Archived 26 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine (Accessed 26 January 2018)