Catherine Ogle (born 12 May 1961) is a British retired

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priest. From February 2017 to May 2025, she was the

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. She was previously a parish priest in the

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and the

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, and then the Dean of Birmingham (2010–2017).

Early life

Ogle was born on 12 May 1961 in

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. She is the daughter of Henry Charles Ogle and Josephine Ogle (née Bathard). She was educated at

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, a

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, Cambridgeshire. She studied at the

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and Westcott House.

Ordained ministry

She was ordained deacon in 1988, then served as

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at St Mary's Church,

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from 1988 to 1991. She then worked as a Religious Programmes Editor with BBC Leeds from 1991 to 1995. She was ordained priest in 1994 and served as

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of Woolley with

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from 1995 to 2001. Catherine became Vicar of Huddersfield in 2001. She was also

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at the

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from 2003 to 2006 and was made an honorary Canon at

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in 2008. In 2010, she was appointed Dean of Birmingham; she was instituted at Birmingham Cathedral on 2 September 2010. She was instituted

on 11 February 2017. The 37th known successive such Dean of the Cathedral, the 22nd was incidentally Newton Ogle who died in 1804. She is the first woman to lead the Cathedral's day-to-day ministry. In November 2024, Ogle announced that she was to retire, for personal reasons, on 1 May 2025. Following a negative bishop's review of the cathedral, she announced on 3 March 2025 that she would be standing aside immediately as dean and that the vice-dean, Canon Roly Riem, would be taking over as interim dean (though she remained officially in post until her scheduled retirement).

References

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