Catherine Jane Prowd (), known as Kate Prowd, is an

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in the

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. She has served as an

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in the

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as well as the city of

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), since October 2018. Prowd is the sister of Bishop

Lindsay Urwin Lindsay Goodall Urwin Oratory of the Good Shepherd, OGS (born 13 March 1956) is an Australian Anglicanism, Anglican bishop. Urwin was the area Bishop of Horsham in the Diocese of Chichester, in southern England, from 1993 to 2009, and was also the ...

. They are believed to be the only brother-sister bishops in the entire

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. Another brother is Michael Urwin, who was headmaster of

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from 1996 to 2013 and has been the registrar of the Diocese of Melbourne since 2019. Prowd completed a theological degree at

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. She was ordained deacon in 1986 and priest in 1992. She served in parish ministry within the Diocese of Melbourne at

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, Black Rock,

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and

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and in school chaplaincy at Christ Church Grammar School and

Brighton Grammar School , motto_translation = Let us keep pursuing better things , city = Brighton , state = Victoria , zipcode = 3186 , country = Australia , coordinates ...

. Prowd also lived in

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for some time where she worked as a clinical psychologist in student health at

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before returning to Australia in 2004. She has maintained her registration as a psychologist in her role as bishop. In 2018, Prowd was consecrated and appointed as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Melbourne, replacing Philip Huggins who had reached retirement age. Prowd is married to Roger, who is a priest, and has three daughters.

References

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