Catherine Ogle (born 12 May 1961) is a British

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priest. Since February 2017, she has been the

Dean of Winchester The Dean of Winchester is the head of the Chapter of Winchester Cathedral in the city of Winchester, England, in the Diocese of Winchester. Appointment is by the Crown. The first incumbent was the last Prior, William Kingsmill, Catherine Ogle ...

. She was previously the Dean of Birmingham (2010–2017), and a parish priest in the

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and the Diocese of Wakefield.

Early life

Ogle was born on 12 May 1961 in Upminster,

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. She is the daughter of Henry Charles Ogle and Josephine Ogle (née Bathard). She was educated at

Perse School for Girls The Stephen Perse Foundation is a family of independent schools in Cambridge and Saffron Walden for students aged 1 to 18. The Foundation is made up of 3 nurseries (2 in Cambridge and 1 in Saffron Walden, Essex) for ages 1–5, 2 Junior Schoo ...

, an

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, Cambridgeshire. She studied at the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and Westcott House.

Ordained ministry

She was ordained deacon in 1988, then served as assistant curate at St Mary's Church,

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from 1988 to 1991. She then worked as a Religious Programmes Editor with

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from 1991 to 1995. She was ordained priest in 1994 and served as priest in charge of Woolley with West Bretton from 1995 to 2001. Catherine became Vicar of Huddersfield in 2001. She was also

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at the

University of Huddersfield , mottoeng = Thus not for you alone , established = 1825 – Huddersfield Science and Mechanics' Institute1992 – university status , type = Public , endowment = £2.47 million (2015) , chancellor = George W. Buckley , vice_chancel ...

from 2003 to 2006 and was made an honorary Canon at Wakefield Cathedral in 2008. In 2010, she was appointed Dean of Birmingham; she was instituted at Birmingham Cathedral on 2 September 2010. She was instituted

on 11 February 2017.Winchester Cathedral — the Next Dean of Winchester
(Accessed 2 September 2016) The 37th known successive such Dean of the Cathedral, the 22nd was incidentally

Newton Ogle Newton Ogle (1726 – 1804) was a Church of England clergyman and member of the landowning Ogle family. The son of Nathaniel Ogle and Elizabeth Newton, he served as a prebendary of Durham Cathedral and from 1769 to 1804 as Dean of Winchester. His w ...

who died in 1804. She is the first woman to lead the Cathedral's day-to-day ministry.

References

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