Education
Born in Chalfont Street Giles, Buckinghamshire, England in 1942, Jamieson attended Wycombe High School and studied linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, before moving to New Zealand, her husband"s country of birth.
Born in Chalfont Street Giles, Buckinghamshire, England in 1942, Jamieson attended Wycombe High School and studied linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, before moving to New Zealand, her husband"s country of birth.
She worked at the Wellington Inner City Mission while completing her doctoral thesis at Victoria University. In 1985 she was ordained to priesthood and became assistant curate of Street James’ Lower Hutt. After this she was vicar of Karori West with Makara in the Diocese of Wellington.
In 1990 she was elected to head the country"s southernmost diocese, the Diocese of Dunedin.
She was consecrated a bishop on 29 June 1990. She was challenged by the power-structures of a predominantly male institution and spoke publicly about the difficulties of being the world"s first woman diocesan bishop.
At her retirement, after 14 years as Bishop of Dunedin, Jamieson expressed her regret that no other woman had been elected a bishop in New Zealand.