Victoria Matthews

The Right Reverend Victoria Matthews
Bishop of Christchurch
Church	Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
In office	2008–present
Predecessor	David Coles
Other posts	Bishop of Edmonton (1997–2007)
Orders
Ordination	1979 (deacon) 1980 (priest)
Consecration	12 February 1994
Personal details
Born	1954 (age 62–63) Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Victoria Matthews (born 1954) is a Canadian Anglican bishop. Since 2008, she has served as Bishop of Christchurch in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. In 1994, she became the first woman ordained bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada when she was made a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Toronto. She then served as the Bishop of Edmonton from 1997 to 2007.

Matthews was educated at Bishop Strachan School in Toronto, and graduated with a B.A.(Honours) degree from Trinity College, University of Toronto in 1976. She was the recipient of the North American Theological Fellowship from 1976 to 1979, and completed a M.Div. at Yale Divinity School and Berkeley Divinity School. She also holds a Th.M. from Trinity College, Toronto, which she completed in 1987.

Matthews is considered to be a theological conservative and on the Anglo-Catholic wing of the Church.

Matthews became a deacon in 1979 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1980. In 1992, she sat on the bishop's court that convicted Fr James Ferry of disobedience. She served as an educator and a parish priest until Feb 12, 1994, when she was ordained to the episcopate. From 1994 to 1997 she was Suffragan (Assistant) Bishop of Toronto. She became the first woman to be a bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada.

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