Rose Josephine Hudson-Wilkin, (born 19 January 1961) is a British Anglican bishop, who has been suffragan Bishop of Dover in the diocese of Canterbury - deputising for the Archbishop - since 2019: she is the first black woman to become a Church of England bishop. She had served as Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons from 2010 to 2019, and previously in the Church Army and then parish ministry. Early life Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Hudson-Wilkin was raised by her father and aunt Pet, her mother having left for England when she was born. She did not meet her mother again until she was nine. She was educated at Montego Bay High School, an all-girls secondary school in Montego Bay. She was 14 when she decided to join the ministry and, in a 2012 interview in the Daily Telegraph, she said: "I simply had this overwhelming sense that this was what I was called to do." Ordained ministry In 1982, Hudson-Wilkin travelled to the UK to train at the Church Army college in the West Midlands. She later trained at the West Midlands Ministerial Training Course in preparation for ordained ministry, being made a deacon in the Church of England at Petertide 1991 (30 June) by Keith Sutton, Bishop of Lichfield, at Lichfield Cathedral. From 1991 to 1994, she served as the parish deacon of St Matthew's Church, Wolverhampton. She was ordained a priest on 23 April 1994 (by Sutton, at Lichfield Cathedral), in the first few weeks that the Church of England ordained women to the priesthood. Remaining at St Matthew's Church, she served her curacy from 1994 to 1995. From 1995 to 1998, she was assistant curate of St Andrew's Church, West Bromwich. During this time, she also worked with the Committee on Black Anglican Concern. It was founded after the Faith in the City report was published in 1985 and worked to combat racism in the Church of England. It has since been replaced by the Committee for Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns. In 1998, she took up the role as vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Dalston, and All Saints Church, Haggerston, an inner-city parish in Hackney, London. She was appointed a Chaplain to the Queen in 2008. In 2010, she was appointed Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons in addition to her parish work. In March 2013, she was installed