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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.
"PB" refers to whether the bishop became a Presiding Bishop in TEC and, if so, which number in the sequence. Under consecrators, one finds numbers or letters referencing previous bishops on the list. If a series of letters is under "Consecrators", then the consecrators were bishops or archbishops from outside of the ECUSA:
The following is a list of bishops who currently lead dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States and its territories. Also included in the list are suffragan bishops , provisional bishops , coadjutor bishops , and assistant bishops .
Pages in category "Presiding Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The presiding bishop serves as the denomination’s chief pastor, president and CEO. ... he was the youngest bishop in the Episcopal Church. In 2019, he also began overseeing the Diocese of ...
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.
Ordained as a priest in 2000, Rowe served for 7 years as rector for St. John's Episcopal Church in Franklin, Pennsylvania and was ordained and consecrated as the 8th Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania in September 2007, [5] [6] a position in which he remained for 17 years before succeeding Michael Curry as Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal ...
On June 27, 2015, the General Convention elected Bishop Michael Curry of North Carolina as the 27th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. [17] From 2017 to 2019, Jefferts Schori was an assisting bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego. [18] Since 2019, Jefferts Schori is one of the assisting bishops in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.