The installation of the Rt Rev Dr Dagmar Winter as Bishop of Edinburgh will take place at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Edinburgh on Saturday 30 May.
The Service of Translation and Installation, led by the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Most Rev Mark Strange, will begin at 11am and will be streamed live at this link. Due to limited capacity at the cathedral, it is an invitation-only event.
The sermon will be delivered by the Rt Rev Graham Usher, Bishop of Norwich, the lead bishop on the environment for the Church of England. The Bishop-Elect, who leaves the post of Bishop of Huntingdon as part of this translation to Edinburgh, first worked together with Bishop Usher – then a Rector – at Hexham Abbey in 2004, and later both became bishops in East Anglia.
“I am so looking forward to the installation service to be the next Bishop of Edinburgh and to worshipping with you all,” said the Bishop-Elect, who will become the 27th Bishop of Edinburgh. “It is wonderful that so many people from the Diocese are going to be in St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, alongside those associated with my previous ministry and personal friends.
“My huge thanks to Provost John Conway, Director of Music Duncan Ferguson and the Cathedral staff as well as the Diocesan Office team for all they have done in preparation for this occasion. I trust it will encourage each of us further to ‘grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ’ (Ephesians 4:15).”
Bishop Dagmar will celebrate the Eucharist during the service.
Guests from across Scotland, from many other denominations and from across the world are among those who have been invited to attend. The ecumenical guests are the Most Rev Dr Leo Cushley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, His Eminence Nikitas (Lioulias), Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, the Rt Rev Gordon Kennedy, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and the Most Rev Rt Hon Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York and Primate of England.
Three bishops from Companion Dioceses to the Diocese of Edinburgh will also be present: Rt Rev Steven Benford (sometime Bishop of Dunedin), the Rt Rev Dr Victor Atta-Baffoe (Bishop of Cape Coast) and the Rt Rev Dr Kaisamari Hintikka (Bishop of Espoo).
After the service a reception for guests will be held on the South Lawn, weather-permitting, or in the cathedral nave if the weather is inclement.
Bishop Dagmar was elected in February this year, following the retirement of the Rt Rev Dr John Armes who served the Diocese as Bishop for 13 years. She was ordained priest in 1997 in the Diocese of Rochester, Church of England, serving there and in the Diocese of Newcastle, and was made a Canon of Newcastle Cathedral in 2011. She was consecrated Bishop of Huntingdon in the Diocese of Ely in 2019, and has been the Acting Bishop of Ely since 2023.