Sarah Mullally

The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally DBE has served as the 133rd Bishop of London since 2018, and is the first woman to hold the position. She sits in the House of Lords as one of the Lords Spiritual.

Bishop Sarah was sworn in as a member of the Privy Council on 14th March 2018 and became Dean of HM’s Chapels Royal on 11th July 2019.

In her early career, Bishop Sarah was a nurse at St Thomas’ Hospital, and the Royal Marsden Hospital in London and held several leadership roles in health before becoming Chief Nursing Officer for England in the Department of Health. She left this role in 2004 to pursue full time ministry, serving her first curacy in South London.

From 2006 to 2012 she was Team Rector at Sutton in Southwark Diocese. From 2012 to 2015 she was Canon Residentiary and Canon Treasurer at Salisbury Cathedral before taking up her role in 2015 as Suffragan Bishop of Crediton in the Diocese of Exeter.

Bishop Sarah has continued her interest in the health service having been a non-executive director at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust then at Salisbury NHS Foundation Hospital. She is a novice potter.