Jāna Jēruma-Grīnberga
Jāna Jēruma-Grīnberga (born London, 1953) is the
priest-in-charge of St Saviour’s Anglican Church in Riga
, Latvia and was the first woman to become a bishop in Britain.
Jēruma-Grīnberga is the daughter of the Latvian composer
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church Abroad in Great Britain.[1]
She served as the bishop of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain, taking office in January 2009.[1][2] As such, she was the first woman to become a bishop in Britain.[3] Christina Rees, chair of Women and the Church, welcomed her appointment as the campaign for women to be ordained bishops in the Church of England was not yet successful.[1] Ishmael Noko, general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation, also welcomed the news.[4]
Jēruma-Grīnberga is a trustee of
Thyateira and Great Britain, the Revd Michael Heaney (Free Churches' Moderator),[5] and Bishop Eric Brown (Pentecostal). From 2009 to 2013, she was co-moderator of the Anglican Lutheran Society,[6] together with Anglican bishop Rupert Hoare
.
She was installed as the
priest-in-charge of St Saviour’s Anglican Church in Riga, Latvia, in October 2014, succeeding Juris Cālītis.[7]
See also
- Alison Elliot in 2004 became the first female to become moderator of the General Assembly in the Church of Scotland.
References
- ^ a b c d Britain's first woman bishop to take office this weekend January 14, 2009 by Martin Beckford The Telegraph
- ^ "Ekklesia - Lutherans give Britain its first woman bishop". 15 December 2015.
- ^ Chris Watt Scot’s bid to be bishop fails 19 May 2011 The Herald (Scotland)
- ^ "wfn.org - LWI 2009-005 Lutheran Woman Bishop Jeruma-Grinberga Succeeds Jagucki in Great Britain".
- ^ [1] [dead link]
- ^ Kitachi, Adrian. "WELCOME TO THE ANGLICAN LUTHERAN SOCIETY".
- ^ Hamid, David (November 10, 2014). "Eurobishop: St Saviour's Riga welcomes its new Priest-in-Charge".
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