Eleanor Sanderson
{{Short description|Associate bishop in Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia}}
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| name = Eleanor Sanderson
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| title = Bishop of Hull
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| caption = Sanderson in 2022
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| diocese = Diocese of York
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| term = September 2022 to present
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| other_post = Assistant bishop, Diocese of Wellington (2017–2022)
| ordination = 2006
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| consecration = 2 June 2017
| consecrated_by = Winston Halapua and Philip Richardson
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| birth_name = Eleanor Ruth Grourk
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1977}}
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| birth_place = England
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| religion = Anglican
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| spouse = Tim Sanderson
| children = 2
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| alma_mater = Victoria University of Wellington
| thesis_title = Within arm's reach: embodying geographies of development and spirituality
| thesis_url = https://viewer.waireto.victoria.ac.nz/client/viewer/IE917514/
| thesis_year = 2006
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Eleanor Ruth Sanderson (née Grourk; born 1977){{cite web |website=Archbishop of York |title=Suffragan Bishop of Hull: Eleanor Sanderson |url=https://www.archbishopofyork.org/news/latest-news/suffragan-bishop-hull-rt-revd-dr-eleanor-sanderson |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629094125/https://www.archbishopofyork.org/news/latest-news/suffragan-bishop-hull-rt-revd-dr-eleanor-sanderson |archive-date=29 June 2022 |access-date=3 August 2022 }} is an English Anglican bishop who has served as Bishop of Hull, a suffragan bishop in the Church of England Diocese of York, since 2022.{{cite web |website=Diocese of York |title=Prayer and welcome from around the globe for Bishop Eleanor |url=https://dioceseofyork.org.uk/news-events/news/prayer-and-welcome-from-around-the-globe-for-bishop-eleanor/ |date=27 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929173306/https://dioceseofyork.org.uk/news-events/news/prayer-and-welcome-from-around-the-globe-for-bishop-eleanor/ |archive-date=29 September 2022 |access-date=29 September 2022 }} She previously served as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Wellington within the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. She became the first woman bishop in the Wellington diocese when she was consecrated on 2 June 2017.{{cite web |website=Anglican Taonga |title=Eleanor Sanderson ordained |url=http://www.anglicantaonga.org.nz/News/Tikanga-Pakeha/bp-eleanor |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170617063033/http://www.anglicantaonga.org.nz/News/Tikanga-Pakeha/bp-eleanor |archive-date=17 June 2017 |access-date=3 August 2022 }} At the time, she was the fourth woman to be elevated to the position of bishop in the New Zealand Anglican church. Prior to becoming a bishop, she served as an Anglican priest for eleven years, also in the Wellington diocese.
Early life and education
Eleanor Sanderson was born in England, and grew up in Derbyshire.{{Cite web|last=Boyack|first=Nicholas|date=2017-08-04|title=Kiwi tour puts backpacker on road to becoming Wellington's first female bishop|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/95308317/from-boozy-party-girl-to-wellingtons-first-female-bishop|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190522173643/https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/95308317/from-boozy-party-girl-to-wellingtons-first-female-bishop|archive-date=May 22, 2019|access-date=2021-10-21|website=Stuff |language=en}} She is the daughter of Terry Grourk.{{Cite web|title=My daughter, the Kiwi bishop|url=http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/church-services/110486/my-daughter-the-kiwi-bishop.html|access-date=2021-10-23|website=www.henleystandard.co.uk|date=29 May 2017 }} She attended Bristol University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in geography. After having first visited New Zealand on a backpacking trip in 1996, she later returned to study geography at Victoria University of Wellington. She graduated with a Master of Development Studies with distinction in 2002,{{cite web |url=https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/students/graduation-and-beyond/roll-of-graduates?firstname=eleanor&lastname=grourk |title=Roll of graduates: Eleanor Grourk |publisher=Victoria University of Wellington |access-date=25 October 2021}} and a PhD in 2007.{{cite web |url=https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/students/graduation-and-beyond/roll-of-graduates?firstname=eleanor&lastname=sanderson |title=Roll of graduates: Eleanor Sanderson |publisher=Victoria University of Wellington |access-date=25 October 2021}} She also holds a Master in Theology degree, and was a fellow of public theology at Virginia Theological Seminary.
Ordained ministry
Sanderson was ordained as a deacon in 2005 and as a priest in 2006.{{Crockford| surname = Sanderson | forenames = Eleanor Ruth | id = 53389 | accessed = 17 October 2023}} She was vicar of St Alban's Anglican Church in Eastbourne, New Zealand, and was chaplain at Wellesley College, a boys preparatory school which is affiliated with the Anglican Church.{{Cite web|date=June 1, 2017|title=Dr Eleanor Sanderson to become Wellington's first female bishop|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dr-eleanor-sanderson-to-become-wellingtons-first-female-bishop/WLBEJKYVQRA3BQ3A2DAO7VBPIQ/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021142227/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dr-eleanor-sanderson-to-become-wellingtons-first-female-bishop/WLBEJKYVQRA3BQ3A2DAO7VBPIQ/|archive-date=October 21, 2021|access-date=2021-10-21|website=The New Zealand Herald |language=en-NZ}} At Victoria University, she was a teaching associate for the School of Religious Studies.
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Sanderson was nominated for the position of assistant bishop on 11 May 2017, by the diocesan electoral college. She had already been appointed to a significant post within the diocese, as the diocesan canon theologian.{{Cite web|last=Taonga News|date=22 March 2017|title=Ellie Sanderson elected bishop|url=https://www.anglicantaonga.org.nz/news/tikanga_pakeha/ellie|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021142707/https://www.anglicantaonga.org.nz/news/tikanga_pakeha/ellie|archive-date=October 21, 2021|access-date=2021-10-21|website=www.anglicantaonga.org.nz|publisher=AnglicanTonga}} Her nomination as bishop was later ratified by the General Synod and the House of Bishops. Sanderson was consecrated at the Cathedral of St Paul in Wellington on 2 June 2017, at a service led by Anglican archbishops Winston Halapua and Philip Richardson. As assistant bishop, Sanderson assisted the diocesan bishop; as of October 2021 that post was held by Justin Duckworth.
In 2017, Sanderson contributed to a special liturgy celebrating the fortieth anniversary of women's ordination in the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia.{{Cite web|date=November 7, 2017|title=40 years of women's priestly ministry celebrated in New Zealand|url=https://www.anglicannews.org/news/2017/11/40-years-of-womens-priestly-ministry-celebrated-in-new-zealand.aspx|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021142752/https://www.anglicannews.org/news/2017/11/40-years-of-womens-priestly-ministry-celebrated-in-new-zealand.aspx|archive-date=October 21, 2021|access-date=2021-10-21|website=www.anglicannews.org|publisher=Anglican Communion News Service|language=en-gb}} The province first ordained women in 1977.{{Cite web|last=Clarke-Morris|first=Julanne|date=6 November 2017|title=Celebrating women's priesthood|url=https://www.anglicantaonga.org.nz/news/common_life/women_40th|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210218061317/https://www.anglicantaonga.org.nz/news/common_life/women_40th|archive-date=February 18, 2021|access-date=2021-10-23|website=www.anglicantaonga.org.nz|publisher=Anglican Taonga}}
On 29 June 2022 she was announced as the next Bishop of Hull in the Diocese of York of the Church of England.{{cite web|title=Next Suffragan Bishop of Hull: the Rt Revd Dr Eleanor Sanderson |url=https://dioceseofyork.org.uk/news-events/news/next-suffragan-bishop-of-hull-the-rt-revd-dr-eleanor-sanderson/|date=29 June 2022|website=Diocese of York|accessdate=29 June 2022}}{{London Gazette |issue=63829 |date=30 September 2022 |page=18518 |supp= n}} She was officially welcomed into the diocese and commissioned as Bishop of Hull (i.e. translated) during a service at Hull Minster on 22 September 2022.
Personal life
See also
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.worldanglican.com/new-zealand/wellington/the-anglican-church-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-and-polynesia/the-rt-revd-eleanor-sanderson}}
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Category:Women Anglican bishops
Category:21st-century Anglican bishops in New Zealand