Jerry Alban Lamb (born September 4, 1940) is a retired American
bishop
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. He was the sixth bishop of the
Episcopal
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Diocese of Northern California.
Background
Lamb was born in
Denver, Colorado
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. He attended the
Roman Catholic
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St. Thomas
Seminary
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in Denver, where he received a
Bachelor of Arts
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degree in 1964 and a
Master of Arts
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degree in 1966. In 1973 he received an
M.A.
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in
counseling
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from the
University of Oregon
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. Lamb was received into the Episcopal Church and
ordained
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to the
diaconate
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in March 1977. On August 15, 1977, he was ordained to the
priest
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hood in the
Episcopal Diocese of Oregon
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.
Lamb was elected
Bishop Coadjutor
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of Northern California in 1991 and was consecrated on June 9 of that year. In 1992, he became the diocesan bishop. Also in 1992 he was awarded an
honorary Doctor of Divinity
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degree from
The Church Divinity School of the Pacific
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. He is the
868th bishop consecrated into the
historical episcopate
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of the Episcopal Church.
Lamb retired at the end of 2006 and was succeeded by the Rev.
Canon
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Barry L. Beisner. He was then appointed assisting bishop of
Nevada
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after the election of Bishop
Katharine Jefferts Schori
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as presiding bishop.
In March 2008, Lamb was appointed to administer the
Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin in central California after Bishop
John-David Schofield
John-David Mercer Schofield (October 6, 1938 – October 29, 2013) was a bishop-in-residence in the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA).
Schofield was the rector of St. Columba's Inverness in the Episcopal Diocese of California. He served as ...
and at least 40 parishes left the Episcopal Church for the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone. About seven congregations are still Episcopal.
External links
The Electronic Clerical Directory Church Publishing, Inc.
Diocese of Northern California website
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1940 births
Living people
Clergy from Denver
Converts to Anglicanism from Roman Catholicism
University of Oregon alumni
Episcopal bishops of Northern California
Episcopal bishops of San Joaquin
Episcopal bishops of Nevada