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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.
Education. Hobart College (BA) Yale University (MDiv) Michael Bruce Curry (born March 13, 1953) is an American bishop who is the 27th and current Presiding Bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church. Elected in 2015, he is the first African American elected to the role, having previously served as Bishop of North Carolina from 2000 to 2015.
Katharine Jefferts Schori (born March 26, 1954) is the former Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church of the United States. Previously elected as the 9th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada, she was the first woman elected as a primate in the Anglican Communion. Jefferts Schori was elected at the 75th General Convention on ...
HOL = John Holder, Archbishop of the West Indies (2009-2018) ISO = Andrew Haruhisa Iso, Bishop of Osaka. KER = Greg Kerr-Wilson, Archbishop of Calgary and Metropolitan of Rupert's Land. KIL = Robert Kilgour, Primus and Bishop of Aberdeen. LEA = Arthur Lea, Bishop of Kyushu. LYO = Frank Lyons, Bishop of Bolivia.
1. Alma mater. Grove City College. Virginia Theological Seminary. Sean Walter Rowe (born February 16, 1975 [1]) is the eighth and current Episcopal Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania. [2] He is also bishop provisional of the Diocese of Western New York. [3] On June 26, 2024, he was elected to succeed Michael Curry as ...
He was Bishop of Chicago from 1987 until he became the presiding bishop in 1998. Griswold was co-chair of the Anglican - Roman Catholic International Commission from 1998 to 2003. He was a member of the standing committee for the 1998 Lambeth Conference. He also served on diocesan, national, and international committees for liturgy, worship ...
Samuel David Ferguson was the first black bishop consecrated by the Episcopal Church, the first to practice in the U.S. and the first black person to sit in the House of Bishops. Bishop Ferguson was consecrated on June 24, 1885, with the then-Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church acting as a consecrator.
Wright was elected Bishop of Atlanta on June 2, 2012, and was consecrated on October 13, 2012, in the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori. [3] In 2024 Wright was shortlisted to succeed Michael Curry as Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. [4] [5]