Kate Wilmot (born Katherine Ann Wilmot) (1968-)The Anglican Church of Australia, 2021, ''Directory / Anglican Church of Australia,'' Broughton Publishing Pty Ltd is an

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in Australia. She was

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in August 2015 to serve as an

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in the

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Personal life and previous career

Wilmot was born in

Darwin, Northern Territory Darwin ( ; Larrakia: ) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. With an estimated population of 147,255 as of 2019, the city contains the majority of the residents of the sparsely populated Northern Territory. It is the smalle ...

and obtained a Bachelor of Arts at the

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in 1992. She worked as a computer typesetter before her

ordination Ordination is the process by which individuals are Consecration, consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorization, authorized (usually by the religious denomination, denominational ...

Ministry

Kate Wilmot obtained a

Bachelor of Divinity In Western universities, a Bachelor of Divinity or Baccalaureate in Divinity (BD or BDiv; la, Baccalaureus Divinitatis) is a postgraduate academic degree awarded for a course taken in the study of divinity or related disciplines, such as theology ...

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in 1999. She was made a

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in 1999 and became an assistant

curate A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish. In this sense, "curate" means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy w ...

at St John's church, Northam from 1999 to 2001. She was ordained

priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particu ...

in February 2000 and subsequently became Priest-in-Charge of the parishes of Ballajura (2001-2009) and Rector at St Augustine of Canterbury church,

Bayswater, Western Australia Bayswater is a suburb north-east of the central business district (CBD) of Perth, the capital of Western Australia. It is just north of the Swan River, within the City of Bayswater local government area. It is predominantly a low-density res ...

(2009-2015). During that time she was also an Army Reserve

Chaplain A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a Minister (Christianity), minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a laity, lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secularity, secular institution (such as a hosp ...

from 2004 to 2016,

Area Dean In the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion as well as some Lutheran denominations, a rural dean is a member of clergy who presides over a "rural deanery" (often referred to as a deanery); "ruridecanal" is the corresponding adjective. ...

of the Mirrabooka Deanery (2007-09) and a Canon of St George’s Cathedral, Perth (2008-2015). In 2015 she was consecrated bishop by former Archbishop of Perth,

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and serves as

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of Perth and Assistant Bishop with episcopal oversight of the South: Yonga (formerly Armadale), Gwaya (formerly Cockburn), Wagyl (formerly Melville) and Marli (formerly Perth and Victoria Park)

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. From 2016-2018 she was Administrator of the Diocese of Perth while the diocese was without an Archbishop when Herft stood down then retired. In 2018 she led the service for the installation of

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as Archbishop of Perth.

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