Victoria Matthews

The Right Reverend Victoria Matthews
Bishop of Christchurch
Matthews in 2012
Church	Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
In office	2008–2018[1]
Predecessor	David Coles
Successor	Peter Carrell
Other post(s)	Bishop of Edmonton (1997–2007)
Orders
Ordination	1979 (deacon) 1980 (priest)
Consecration	12 February 1994
Personal details
Born	1954 (age 69–70) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alma mater	Trinity College, Toronto Yale University

Victoria Matthews (born 1954) is a Canadian Anglican bishop. From 2008 until 2018, she served as Bishop of Christchurch in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. In 1994, she became the first woman ordained bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada when she was made a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Toronto. She then served as the Bishop of Edmonton from 1997 to 2007.