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Sean Walter Rowe (born February 16, 1975 [1]) is an American bishop who has served as the 28th Presiding Bishop and primate of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America since 2024.
Sean Rowe, a 49-year-old bishop from western Pennsylvania, on Wednesday became the youngest person ever elected as leader of the Episcopal Church. Rowe, who leads two small dioceses along Lake ...
The Right Rev. Sean Rowe, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania, addresses the Episcopal Church's House of Deputies after being elected as the Episcopal Church's next ...
Sean Rowe, a 49-year-old bishop from western Pennsylvania, on Wednesday became the youngest person ever elected as leader of the Episcopal Church. He immediately issued a sobering call for the church, which has faced division and chronic membership loss, to confront an “existential crisis” that he compared with the steel industry collapse ...
Bishop Sean Rowe of the Episcopal Dioceses of Northwestern Pennsylvania and Western New York, speaks during a 2020 vigil outside the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Paul in Erie. Clergy members ...
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.
Sean W. Rowe is bishop provisional of Western New York. The diocesan convention elected him to this role on October 26, 2018, when it and the convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania voted to share a bishop and a staff for five years while they explore a partnership.
Bishop Sean Rowe of the Episcopal Dioceses of Northwestern Pennsylvania and Western New York, speaks Aug. 7, 2020, during a vigil outside the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Paul in Erie.