Rose Hudson-Wilkin
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The Reverend Prebendary Rose Hudson-Wilkin |
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| Priest in Charge of St Mary-at-Hill | |
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Hudson-Wilkin in April 2017
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| Diocese | Diocese of London |
| In office | October 2014–present |
| Other posts |
Chaplain to the Queen (since 2008) Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons (since 2010) Priest-Vicar of Westminster Abbey (since 2010) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1991 (deacon) 1994 (priest) |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Rose Josephine Hudson |
| Born |
19 January 1961 Montego Bay, Jamaica |
| Spouse | Ken Wilkin |
| Children | Three |
| Education | Montego Bay High School |
Rose Josephine Hudson-Wilkin (born 19 January 1961) is a Church of England priest. Since November 2014, she has been Priest in Charge of St Mary-at-Hill, City of London. She additionally holds the roles of Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons, priest vicar at Westminster Abbey and chaplain to the Queen. She was previously vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Dalston and All Saints Church, Haggerston. She has been tipped as likely to be among the first cohort of women to become bishops in the Church of England.
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."
In 1982, Hudson-Wilkin travelled to the UK to train at the Church Army college in the West Midlands. In 1991, having completed the West Midlands Ministerial Training Course, she was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon. From 1991 to 1994, she served as the parish deacon of St Matthew's Church, Wolverhampton. She was ordained a priest in 1994, in the first year that the Church of England ordained women to the priesthood. Remaining at St Matthew's Church, she served her curacy from 1994 to 1995.
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