Ruth Bushyager


Ruth Kathleen Frances Bushyager is a British Anglican bishop. Since July 2020, she has served as Bishop of Horsham, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Chichester.

Ordained ministry

From 2014 to 2020, she was Vicar of St Paul's Church, Dorking in the Diocese of Guildford. She previously served in parish ministry in the Dioceses of Southwell and Nottingham and of Oxford, as a school chaplain, and as a missioner in the Diocese of London. In April 2020, she was announced as the next Bishop of Horsham, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Chichester. She will be the first woman to serve as a bishop in the diocese. Her consecration as a bishop was on the morning of 15 July 2020, in the Chapel of Lambeth Palace, by Sarah Mullally, Bishop of London, making her the first female bishop in the Church of England to be consecrated by a bishop who is female.