150th Anniversary Speaker Series (Zoom)

In place of the bishop’s usual winter book study for 2025, there will be a speaker series with two sessions on Zoom and two sessions in-person.

The series will be held on Tuesdays from 7-8:30 PM on the following dates:

• January 21: The Rev. Dr. Amy Peeler, Associate Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College (Zoom*)
• January 28: The Rt. Rev. Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Suffragan Bishop, Diocese of Canterbury, UK (Zoom*)
• February 4: The Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, Canon Theologian at Washington National Cathedral (at Trinity & St. Philip’s Cathedral, Newark**)
• February 11: Mr. Ray Suarez, Broadcast Journalist, Author, and Episcopalian (at St. Elizabeth’s, Ridgewood**)

*For the two Zoom events in January, please register by the day prior. The Zoom link will be emailed the morning of the event.
**The two in-person events in February will be preceded by a reception with light refreshments, beginning at 6:15 PM.

January 28: The Rt. Rev. Rose Hudson-Wilkin

Bishop Rose serves as the Suffragan Bishop of Dover in the Diocese of Canterbury. She was born and grew up in Montego Bay. She was ordained deacon in 1991 and priest in 1994. For 16 and a half years she served as a priest in Hackney. In 2007 she was appointed as a Chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen and in 2010, she became the 79th (and first female) Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons. She leads the prayers in the House of Commons daily and has pastoral care of members and staff of the Palace of Westminster. In 2019 it was announced that Hudson-Wilkin was to become Bishop suffragan of Dover. As a suffragan bishop, the Bishop of Dover has authority to oversee the Diocese of Canterbury on behalf of the diocesan bishop, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Bishop Rose became the first black woman to become a bishop in the Church of England.