Eugene Taylor Sutton (born January 9, 1954) is the 14th and current Episcopal Bishop of Maryland.

Early life and education

Sutton grew up in

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, as a Baptist. He graduated from

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, in 1976 and earned a Master of Divinity degree from

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in the same city and was ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Reformed Church in America. Sutton later continued his graduate studies at the

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. After a few years, he joined the Episcopal Church and completed his Anglican ministry training at the Sewanee: The University of the South School of Theology in 1993.

Ministry

As well as serving parishes in New Jersey and Washington, DC, Sutton also taught at the

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, the

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, and the

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Episcopate

A convention of the

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held at

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elected Sutton as bishop on the first ballot. He was consecrated at the

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on June 28, 2008, where he had served as canon pastor. The first

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bishop for the Diocese of Maryland, Sutton was installed in the Cathedral of the Incarnation (Baltimore) on June 29, 2008.

References

* * * 1954 births Living people People from Washington, D.C. Hope College alumni Western Theological Seminary alumni Reformed Church in America ministers Princeton Theological Seminary alumni Vanderbilt University faculty Sewanee: The University of the South alumni General Theological Seminary faculty Episcopal bishops of Maryland African-American Episcopalians Converts to Anglicanism from Baptist denominations {{US-Anglican-bishop-stub

Early life and education

Ministry

Episcopate

See also

References