Kimberly Lucas
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Kimberly "Kym" Lucas is the eleventh and current
Bishop of Colorado The Diocese of Colorado is the diocese of the Episcopal Church which covers all of Colorado. It is in Province VI. Its cathedral, Saint John's Cathedral, Denver, is located in Denver, along with its offices. John Franklin Spalding was the f ...
in the Episcopal Church.


Biography

She was consecrated as the eleventh bishop of the Episcopal Church in Colorado on 18 May 2019, at the Cathedral of St. John in the Wilderness. She was elected on the fourth ballot during the diocese's annual convention on 27 October 2018. Lucas is the first woman as well as the first African American to serve as bishop in the diocese. Prior to her election as bishop, she was rector of St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C since 2012. Previously, she was the rector of St. Ambrose Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, from 2005 to 2011. Lucas is originally from Spring Lake, North Carolina. She studied science and biology at Wake Forest University, and subsequently at Union Theological Seminary she studied for a master of divinity. Lucas is married to Mark Retherford and has four children.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lucas, Kimberly Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Spring Lake, North Carolina Wake Forest University alumni Union Theological Seminary (New York City) alumni Women Anglican bishops Episcopal bishops of Colorado