Angela Berners-Wilson

Who is Angela Berners-Wilson?

Angela Berners-Wilson is considered to be the first woman ordained as a priest in the Church of England. She is currently a chaplain at the University of Bath.

Her father was the rector of the rural parish of Frant in East Sussex.

She married solicitor Andrew Sillett on 19 May 1984.

Due to her surname being alphabetically first in the list of the first 32 women ordained as Church of England priests on 12 March 1994, she is considered the first to be ordained. The officiating bishop speculated that it would be 10 years before the first woman bishop was appointed.

Berners-Wilson was appointed chaplain to the University of Bath in May 2004.

In February 2009 she was appointed a prebendary of Wells Cathedral.

Sponsored by the Diocese of Bath and Wells, the University of Bath and the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, she had a month's sabbatical in China in June 2008.