[1] The Barking area comprises the east London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest, together with the Epping Forest and Harlow districts of west Essex.
The population is 1.3 million and includes a wide mix of ethnicity and culture.
The Barking area also includes the main site for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
[2] Initially, the see was suffragan to the Bishop of St Albans – the Diocese of Chelmsford was not created until 1914.
She had previously been Rector of Stockport and Brinnington in the Diocese of Chester since 2019.