Bishop Moira talks after her consecration at St Paul’s Cathedral on July 3, video Exeter Diocese, Alan Quick

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00:00Congratulations. It's an amazingly moving service. It was beautiful. How are you feeling at the moment?

00:06Oh, it's been just lovely. Having both my friends up till now and my future friends around me.

00:15But most of all, this is a service where God was present. And that's the key. It's about God and how we're serving Him together.

00:23What does that moment of transformation feel like? We were all sort of watching as everyone came around you.

00:28You're going from being an archdeacon, being venerable, to being a bishop.

00:32And now as you stand here in your robes with your cross, what was it like at that moment?

00:37That moment, you're surrounded by other bishops, so you know you're not going on your own.

00:41And they're praying for God's Spirit to come on me. Now, God's Spirit has been on me for years and years and years.

00:48But a special blessing of God for all the tasks that are ahead of me.

00:52All the way through, I was saying, with the help of God.

00:55And that's the moment where we particularly symbolise that this is with the help of God.

01:00Now, there's much talk of the word joy in the service, in the sermon and other bits.

01:04And in Exeter, a diocese part of our vision is to serve the people of Devon with joy.

01:10This service that we've just been in, what will you be taking from that back to Devon, back to your new home and back to the people of Devon?

01:16The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace. And this service was all about the Holy Spirit, God at work.

01:25And so I bring into this service and through this service and from it, that commitment to being open to love and joy and peace.

01:35Thank you. Do you think it will take you a while to get used to being called Bishop Moira?

01:41Yes, it will. Although, the interesting thing is in the months since I was announced, people have started saying it.

01:47And I've been going, no, not yet. And now I've got to go, yet, now. Thank you.

01:52And what are you most looking forward to now? Getting to know people. And getting stuck on those roads.

01:59You know, I know I'm going to get stuck. But if I do it with joy and happiness, and then at the end of the journey,

02:06there will be people who I want to come and be alongside. The sermon, my erstwhile colleague, John,

02:13talks about the pilgrimage that Thomas had taken, the journeys he went on. And so I'm looking forward to those journeys alongside people.

02:21And lots of sheep, obviously. And lots of sheep, which is why my shepherd's staff is a shepherd's crook.

02:28Thank you so much.