The Right Reverend Dame Sarah Mullally, Bishop of Crediton
Lay member of the College Council
The Right Re
verend Dame Sarah Mullally, Bishop of Crediton, was appointed as a lay member of the College Council in 2016.
Dame Sarah, a former nurse, had a distinguished service in the NHS before ordination, culminating in her appointment as the government’s Chief Nursing Officer for England in 1999, when she was the youngest person to be appointed to the post. She was ordained in 2001 and served her curacy in St Saviour’s Battersea Fields, initially as a self-supporting minister. She left her post as Chief Nursing Officer in 2004 to take up full time ministry becoming a Team Rector in Sutton, Surrey in 2006. In 2012 she was installed as Canon Treasurer at Salisbury Cathedral.
Dame Sarah was consecrated as Bishop in July 2015 as only the fourth Woman Bishop in the church of England and took up her role as Bishop of Crediton in September 2015.
She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2005 in recognition of her outstanding contribution to nursing and midwifery.
Dame Sarah is an alumna of King’s College London and before her ordination was Chief Nursing Officer and Director of Patient Experience for England.
Register of Interests
Hospicare Exeter (President)
Church of England (Bishop)
Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance (Trustee)
