The Church of Ireland has appointed its first ever woman bishop as the new Bishop of Meath and Kildare.
Fifty-three-year-old Revd Pat (Patricia) Storey is married with two adult children and is currently Rector of St Augustine’s Parish in Derry.
She succeeds the Church of Ireland Primate, Archbishop Richard Clarke of Armagh, in the role.
Responding to the news, Archbishop Clarke said he was “certain that her ministry in the Dioceses of Meath and Kildare and the wider Church will be a blessing to many.”