Kay Goldsworthy
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The Right Reverend Kay Goldsworthy |
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| Bishop of Gippsland | |
| Church | Anglican Church of Australia |
| Diocese | Diocese of Gippsland |
| In office | 21 March 2015 to present |
| Predecessor | John McIntyre |
| Other posts | Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Perth (2008–2014) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1986 (deacon) 1992 (priest) by Peter Carnley |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Kay Maree Goldsworthy |
| Born | 1956 (age 60–61) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Denomination | Anglicanism |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Melbourne |
Kay Maree Goldsworthy (born 1956) is a bishop of the Anglican Church of Australia, currently serving as diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Gippsland in the south-eastern Australian state of Victoria.
Goldsworthy was born and raised in Melbourne where she studied theology at Trinity College from 1980 to 1983. In 1986 she was ordained as one of the Anglican church's first female deacons in Australia and served as curate at parishes in Thomastown/Epping and Deer Park/St. Albans before moving to Western Australia to become school chaplain at Perth College in Mount Lawley. In 1992 she was ordained as one of a group of Australia's first female priests by the then archbishop, Peter Carnley. She served as rector of St David's parish, Applecross from 1995 to 2006. During this time she was appointed a canon of St George's Cathedral and subsequently Archdeacon of Fremantle. In 2007 she was appointed Archdeacon of Perth and the registrar of the Diocese of Perth.
In April 2008, Goldsworthy was chosen to become an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Perth by the archbishop, Roger Herft. She became the first woman to be consecrated as a bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia at St George's Cathedral, Perth, on 22 May 2008. In 2013 she became the first woman already consecrated as a bishop, and the second Anglican woman, to be on a nomination list for election as a diocesan bishop in Australia (the Bishop of Newcastle election being the first). On 11 December 2014 she was elected to become the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Gippsland and was installed on 21 March 2015.
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