Draft:Sophie Relph-Christopher

The Right Reverend

Sophie Relph-Christopher
The Right Reverend; Sophie Relph-Christopher
Assistant bishop, Anglican Diocese of Adelaide
Church	Anglican Church of Australia
Diocese	Adelaide
Installed	15 August 2024
Orders
Ordination	2010 (as deacon); 2011 (as priest )
Consecration	15 August 2024; by Geoffrey Smith
Personal details
Born	London, United Kingdom
Nationality	Australian
Denomination	Anglican
Spouse	Paul
Children	2

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Instructions · What links here · Sophie Relph-Christopher (talk: + · bio) · (log) · Copyvios report · reFill · Citation Bot · (Search: Google, Wikipedia) · Submitted 3 days ago by KingRedStar1 (talk: D · +) · Last edited 3 days ago by KingRedStar1

Sophie Relf-Christopher is an Australian bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia. She has been an assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Adelaide since August 2024.^[1] She is the second woman Anglican Bishop in Adelaide, after Denise Ferguson.^[2]

She was installed as bishop on 15 August 2024, the feast of Mary, mother of our Lord, at St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide.^[3] Prior to becoming bishop, she was the parish priest of St Jude's Church in Brighton, and Archdeacon of Sturt.^[4] She was previously  assistant curate at St Peter’s Church in Glenelg, before becoming parish priest of Broadview (St Philip's) and Enfield (St Clement's) from 2012 until 2016.^[4]

Born in London, Relph-Christopher moved to Adelaide as a child^[4]. She is married to Paul and has two sons.^[3]^[4] Before being ordained as a priest, she taught film and television production at University of South Australia.^[3]^[5]

References

^ "Bishop Sophie Relf-Christopher". Adelaide Anglicans. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
^ "Mother-of-two consecrated as bishop in Adelaide". medianet. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Adelaide welcomes its new Bishop Sophie". Adelaide Guardian. 16 August 2024. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Sophie Relf-Christopher named as new assistant bishop in Adelaide". Adelaide Guardian. 11 May 2024. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
^ "New Bishop for Adelaide". The Melbourne Anglican. Retrieved 11 November 2024.

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References

[1] "Bishop Sophie Relf-Christopher". Adelaide Anglicans. Retrieved 11 November 2024.

[2] "Mother-of-two consecrated as bishop in Adelaide". medianet. Retrieved 11 November 2024.

[Bishop_Installed-3] "Adelaide welcomes its new Bishop Sophie". Adelaide Guardian. 16 August 2024. Retrieved 11 November 2024.

[New_Female_Bishop-4] "Sophie Relf-Christopher named as new assistant bishop in Adelaide". Adelaide Guardian. 11 May 2024. Retrieved 11 November 2024.

[5] "New Bishop for Adelaide". The Melbourne Anglican. Retrieved 11 November 2024.

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