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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.
Michael Bruce Curry (born March 13, 1953) is an American retired 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.
"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 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.
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 ...
She is being ordained and consecrated by the Most Rev. Michael Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. Wells succeeds former Bishop Brian Seage, who was elected in 2014 and had been in ...
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.
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 .