Dagmar Winter (bishop)

Winter was born in 1963 and is of British and Swiss-German descent.[1][2] She studied at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg and Heidelberg University in Germany.[3] She trained for ordination at Herborn Theological Seminary from 1993 to 1996, during which she also completed a Doctor of Theology (DrTheol) degree.[1]

Winter was made a deacon at Petertide 1996 (29 June),[4] and ordained a priest the Petertide following year (28 June 1997) — both times by Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester, at Rochester Cathedral.[5] She served her curacy at St Mark's Church, Bromley in the Diocese of Rochester.[1] From 1999 to 2006, she was deanery training officer and associate vicar of Hexham Abbey in the Diocese of Newcastle.[3][6]

From 2006 to 2015, she was priest in charge of Kirkwhelpington, Kirkharle, Kirkheaton and Cambo;[6] a group of rural parishes in Northumberland.[2] During this time she held a number of additional appointments: Diocesan Officer for Rural Affairs in the Diocese of Newcastle (2006–2015),[7] Area Dean of Morpeth (2011-2013),[1] and adviser for women's ministry to the Bishop of Newcastle (2012-2019).[2] She was made an honorary canon of Newcastle Cathedral in 2011.[1] In 2015, she returned to Hexham Abbey having been appointed Rector of Hexham.[8]

Since 2005, Winter has been an elected member of the General Synod of the Church of England.[3] She has served on the Rural Group, the Mission and Public Affairs Committee of the Church of England, and the Meissen Committee (Evangelical Church in Germany–Church of England relations).[2]