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Sean Walter Rowe (born February 16, 1975) [1] is an American clergyman who has served as Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of America since November 1, 2024. [2] [3] [4] He was previously Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania from 2007 to 2024, [5] as well as Provisional Bishop of Bethlehem from 2014 to 2018 and Provisional Bishop of Western New York from 2019 to 2024.
Rowe was 32 in May 2007, when he was elected bishop of the Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania, based in Erie. For almost 12 years, he was the youngest bishop in the Episcopal Church. In 2019, he ...
The Right Rev. Sean Rowe, center, shown presiding at the funeral service for Waldameer Park & Water World owner Paul Nelson, will begin serving as the Episcopal Church's presiding bishop on Nov. 1.
Initially the position of Presiding Bishop rotated geographically. After 1795 the Presiding Bishop was the senior bishop in order of consecration. Starting in 1926, the office became elective, the Presiding Bishop being chosen at General Convention by vote by all bishops, and approved by the House of Deputies. The office now has a nine-year term.
John Henry Hopkins (January 30, 1792 – January 9, 1868) was the first bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Vermont and the eighth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. He was also an artist (in both watercolor and oils), a lawyer, an ironmonger, a musician and composer, a theologian, and an architect who ...
The Right Rev. Sean Rowe, bishop of the Erie-based Episcopal Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania, is one of four nominees to succeed the Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop Michael Curry.
Michael Bruce Curry (born March 13, 1953) is an American bishop who was the 27th presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church. Elected in 2015, he was the first African American elected to the role, having previously served as Bishop of North Carolina from 2000 to 2015. His tenure as presiding bishop ended on November 1, 2024, and he ...
Daniel G. P. Gutierrez. Daniel George Policarpio Gutiérrez (born 1964) is the 16th and current bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, the second oldest and fourth largest in the country. He was elected and consecrated in 2016, and previously served as Canon to the Ordinary in the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande.