Rachel Treweek will be the first woman bishop to sit in the House of Lords.

Rachel Treweek will be the first woman bishop to sit in the House of Lords.

Rachel Treweek, the Archdeacon of Hackney, was today
announced as the first diocesan woman bishop in the Church of
England. She will be the first woman to sit in the House of
Bishops with voting rights and under new fast-track legislation
recently passed in Parliament, will also be the first woman to sit
on the Bench of Bishops in the House of Lords.
Archdeacon Treweek, one of the favourites to become the first
senior woman bishop, is the third woman bishop to be
appointed. Two suffragans, in Stockport and Hull, have already
been appointed. As a diocesan, this is the first of the three to be a
Crown appointment and the announcement was made by the
Prime Minister's office this morning.
Archdeacon Treweek, 52, who is a trained as a speech and
language therapist specializing in helping children, is like the
other two women bishops, Bishop Libby Lane and Canon
Alison White, married to another priest. The new Bishop of Hull's priest husband is a bishop as well.