Jāna Jēruma-Grīnberga (born London, 1953) is the priest-in-charge of St Saviour’s Anglican Church in Riga, Latvia and was the first woman to become a bishop in Britain.
She studied biochemistry at University College London and trained to become a nurse before feeling called to the priesthood, studying at North Thames Ministerial Training Course at Oak Hill Theological College and being ordained in 1997.
[1] She served as the bishop of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain, taking office in January 2009.
[1] Ishmael Noko, general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation, also welcomed the news.
She was installed as the priest-in-charge of St Saviour’s Anglican Church in Riga, Latvia, in October 2014, succeeding Juris Cālītis.