Flora Winfield

Flora Jane Louise Winfield (born 1964) is a British Anglican bishop, military chaplain, diplomat, and author. Since 2024, she has been Bishop of Selby. From 2022 to 2024, she was the Third Church Estates Commissioner. She has worked in parish ministry, including as priest-in-charge of St Mary-at-Hill, City of London (2008–2014), and in academia as chaplain and tutor at Mansfield College, Oxford (1994–1997). Before taking up her current appointment, she held a number of diplomatic posts including Anglican Communion Permanent Representative to the United Nations (2014–2017) and as Archbishop of Canterbury's Special Representative to the Commonwealth (2017–2019), and was then Archbishop of Canterbury's Advisor for Reconciliation (2019–2022).

Early life and education Winfield was born in 1964. serving the cathedral for the next three years as its canon pastor. From 2019 to 2024, she also held permission to officiate in the Diocese of Leeds.

Since March 2011, she has been a Deputy Lieutenant (DL) to the Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London.

Military service On 22 July 1997, Winfield was commissioned in the British Army as a chaplain to the forces 4th class (equivalent in rank to captain) in the Royal Army Chaplains' Department, Territorial Army. She was promoted to chaplain to the forces 3rd class (equivalent to major) on 15 November 2005, and to chaplain to the forces 2nd class (equivalent to lieutenant colonel) on 5 October 2015. She attended the Advanced Command and Staff Course at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom in 2016. On 10 October 2024, she was consecrated as a bishop by Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, during a service at York Minster.

Personal life Since 1985, she has been married to Jonathan Gough.