This list consists of the
bishop
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s in the
Episcopal Church in the United States of America
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, an independent
province
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of the
Anglican Communion
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. This shows the historical succession of the
episcopate
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within this church.
Key to chart
The number references the sequence of consecration. Two capital letters before their number identify bishops consecrated for
missionary
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work outside of the United States. "Diocese" refers to the
diocese
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associa ...
for which the individual was ordained. Note, this does not mean it was the only diocese that bishop presided over. For example, the
Diocese of Delaware was under the supervision of the
Diocese of Pennsylvania under
William White. "PB" refers to whether the bishop became a
Presiding Bishop in the ECUSA 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:
*BAK =
Gilbert Baker,
Bishop of Hong Kong and Macao The Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao was an extra-provincial diocese in the Anglican Communion serving Hong Kong and Macau. It existed from 1951 until 1998, when it was reorganized as an autonomous Anglican church, the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui.
Hist ...
*BAN =
Chiu Ban It,
Bishop of Singapore
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is c ...
*BOY =
Laish Boyd Laish Zane Boyd, is the current Bishop of Nassau and The Bahamas, a diocese of the Anglican Communion. References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century Anglican bishops in the Caribbean
Anglican bishops of Na ...
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Bishop of the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos The Bishop of Nassau was an episcopal title given to the Ordinary of the Anglican Diocese of Nassau, from its formation in 1861 until it was retitled the Diocese of Nassau and The Bahamas in 1942.''Ecclesiastical News'' The Times
''The Ti ...
*BRT =
Tony Burton
Anthony Mabron Burton (March 23, 1937 – February 25, 2016) was an American actor and boxer. He was known for his role as Tony "Duke" Evers in the Rocky (film series), ''Rocky'' films.
Early life
Burton was born in Flint, Michigan. He had a y ...
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Bishop of Saskatchewan
The Diocese of Saskatchewan is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land of the Anglican Church of Canada formed in 1874. Its headquarters are in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. The Diocese of Saskatoon was split off from it in 1 ...
*CAB =
Daniel Pina Cabral
Daniel Pereira dos Santos de Pina Cabral (Vila Nova de Gaia, 27 January 1924 – Porto, 23 June 2008) was a Portuguese Anglican bishop. He was the ninth Bishop of Lebombo, Mozambique, from 1968 to 1976.'' Crockford's Clerical Directory 197 ...
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Bishop of Lebombo
The Diocese of Lebombo (pt. ''Diocese Anglicana dos Libombos'') is a diocese in the Anglican Church of Mozambique and Angola. It is one of the three Anglican dioceses of Mozambique. This diocese is the most southerly of the three, the others being ...
*CAS =
William Cassels
William Wharton Cassels (11 March 1858 – 7 November 1925) was an Anglican missionary bishop.
Early life and education
Cassels was born in Oporto, Portugal, the sixth son of John Cassels, a merchant, and Ethelinda Cox, a distant relation of Wa ...
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Bishop of Western China
The Diocese of Western China ( zh, t=聖公會華西教區, w=Shêng Kung Hui Hua Hsi Chiao Chʽü, l=Anglican Diocese of Western China), also known as Diocese of Szechwan ( zh, t=聖公會四川教區, w=Shêng Kung Hui Ssu Chʽuan Chiao Chʽü, ...
*CAR =
George Carey
George Leonard Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton (born 13 November 1935) is a retired Anglican bishop who was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002, having previously been the Bishop of Bath and Wells.
During his time as archbishop the C ...
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Archbishop of Canterbury
*COR =
Nigel Cornwall Nigel Edmund Cornwall CBE, (13 August 1903 – 19 December 1984) was an English clergyman in the Church of England. He held the post of Bishop of Borneo from 1949 until 1962.
Early life
Cornwall was the son of Alan Cornwall, who was Archdeacon of ...
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Bishop of Borneo
The Church of the Province of South East Asia is an autonomous member of the Anglican Communion, created in 1996 with the four dioceses of Kuching, Sabah, Singapore and West Malaysia.
There are approximately 98,000 Anglicans within the pro ...
*DAL =
John Daly,
Bishop in Korea
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Hist ...
*DAR =
Frederick Darwent
Frederick Charles Darwent (20 April 1927 – 15 January 2020) was bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, from 1976 to 1991.
Biography
Born in Liverpool, Darwent was educated at Ormskirk Grammar School. After military service in the Far East with the ...
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Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney
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*ELA =
Riah El-Assal,
Bishop of Jerusalem
*FYF =
Rollestone Fyffe
Rollestone Sterritt Fyffe (also spelled Rolleston; 1868 – 3 April 1964) was the fourth Bishop of Rangoon.
Born in 1868, the son of an army doctor, he was educated at Clifton and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1894, his first posts were ...
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Bishop of Rangoon
The Diocese of Yangon (formerly Rangoon) is the Church of the Province of Myanmar (Anglican) jurisdiction in and around the old capital Yangon, and under the care of the Bishop of Yangon and Archbishop of Myanmar. The diocese (then called Rangoon ...
*GOM =
Ricardo Gomez Osnaya,
Bishop of Western Mexico
*HAL =
Ronald Hall
Ronald Owen Hall (; Cantonese: ''Ho Ming Wah''; 22 July 1895 in Newcastle upon Tyne – 22 April 1975 in Lewknor, Oxfordshire) was an Anglican missionary bishop in Hong Kong and China in the mid 20th century. As an emergency measure during th ...
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Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong (1932–1951) & Bishop of Hong Kong and Macao (1951–1966)
*HIL =
Fred Hiltz
Frederick James Hiltz (born 3 December 1953) is a Canadian retired Anglican bishop. From 2007 to 2019, he served as Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Early life and education
Hiltz was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, where he was also r ...
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Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada
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(2007-2019)
*HIN =
John Hinchliffe
Bishop John Hinchliffe DD (1731 – 11 January 1794 in the Bishop's Palace, Peterborough) was an English churchman and college fellow. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1768–88, Bishop of Peterborough, 1769–94, and Dean of Durham ...
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Bishop of Peterborough (1769–1794)
*HOL =
John Holder,
Archbishop of the West Indies (2009-2018)
*ISO = Andrew Haruhisa Iso,
Bishop of Osaka
The ''Nippon Sei Ko Kai'' ( ja, 日本聖公会, translit=Nippon Seikōkai, lit=Japanese Holy Catholic Church), abbreviated as NSKK, sometimes referred to in English as the Anglican Episcopal Church in Japan, is the national Christian church rep ...
*KER =
Greg Kerr-Wilson
Gregory Kerr-Wilson is a bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada. He is the current Archbishop of Calgary.
Kerr-Wilson is a graduate of the University of British Columbia and Nashotah House Theological Seminary. He was ordained to the priest ...
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Archbishop of Calgary and
Metropolitan of Rupert's Land
*KIL =
Robert Kilgour
Robert Kilgour (1714–1790) was a Scottish clergyman who served in the Scottish Episcopal Church as Bishop of Aberdeen from 1768 to 1786 and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church from 1782 to 1788. He was an outspoken supporter of the Jaco ...
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Primus and
Bishop of Aberdeen
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*LEA =
Arthur Lea,
Bishop of Kyushu
*LYO =
Frank Lyons,
Bishop of Bolivia
*MAR =
William Markham,
Archbishop of York
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*MAT =
Carlos Matsinhe
Carlos Simão Matsinhe (born October 2, 1954) is a Mozambican Anglican bishop. He is the 11th Anglican bishop of the Lebombo, Mozambique. The second Mozambican-born bishop of Lebombo, he is the symbolic head of the Anglican church in Mozambique. ...
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Bishop of Lebombo
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*MIL =
Harold Miller,
Bishop of Down and Dromore
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*MMS =
Melissa M. Skelton,
IX Bishop of New Westminster
*MOL =
Herbert Molony
Herbert James Molony (2 June 1865 – 22 July 1939) was a missionary of the Anglican Church.
Born in Dublin, Molony was educated at Leamington School and Pembroke College, Cambridge (whence he gained his Cambridge Master of Arts ). He was ordaine ...
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Bishop of Chekiang
*MOO =
John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury
*MOS =
Charles Moss,
Bishop of Bath and Wells
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The present diocese covers the overwhelmingly greater part of the (ceremonial) county of Somerset and a small area of D ...
*MOU =
George Moule,
Bishop of Mid-China
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*NOR =
Frank Norris
Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. (March 5, 1870 – October 25, 1902) was an American journalist and novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include '' McTeague: A Story of San ...
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Bishop of North China
*PET =
Arthur Petrie,
Bishop of Moray and Ross
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*POR =
Beilby Porteus
Beilby Porteus (or Porteous; 8 May 1731 – 13 May 1809), successively Bishop of Chester and of London, was a Church of England reformer and a leading abolitionist in England. He was the first Anglican in a position of authority to seriously c ...
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Bishop of London
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*ROB =
Basil Roberts, Bishop of Singapore
*ROW =
Francis Rowinski,
Polish National Catholic
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*SCO =
Charles Scott,
Bishop of North China
*SHE =
Victor George Shearburn,
Bishop of Rangoon
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*SHO =
David Shoji Tani,
Bishop of Okinawa
*SKI =
John Skinner,
bishop coadjutor of Aberdeen
*STE =
Krister Stendahl
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Life
S ...
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Bishop of Stockholm
*THO =
John Thomas,
Bishop of Rochester
*TSE =
Lindel Tsen,
Bishop of Honan
*UEM =
Nathaniel Makoto Uematsu,
Primate of The Nippon Sei Ko Kai and
Bishop of Hokkaido
*VER =
Joris Vercammen
Joris August Odilius Ludovicus Vercammen (born 14 October 1952) served as the Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht of the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands from 1 July 2000 to 11 January 2020.
Life and career
Vercammen was born in Lier, Bel ...
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Archbishop of Utrecht
List of bishops and archbishops of the diocese and archdioceses of Utrecht.
Medieval diocese from 695 to 1580
Founders of the Utrecht diocese
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*WIL =
Cornelius Wilson,
Bishop of Costa Rica
*ZIE =
Thaddeus F. Zielinski
Tadeusz "Thaddeus" F. Zielinski (191611 Aug 1990) was a bishop of the Polish National Catholic Church (PNCC). Zielinski was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1916 to Francis and Mary Kompinski Zielinski. He was consecrated in Buffalo, New Yo ...
, Polish National Catholic bishop
Chart of bishop succession
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The Roman numeral before the diocese name represents where in the sequence that bishop falls; ''e.g.,'' the fourth bishop of Pennsylvania is written "IV Pennsylvania". Where a diocese is in bold type it indicates that the bishop is a current bishop of that diocese.
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See also
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Anglican Communion
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Apostolic succession
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List of original dioceses of the ECUSA
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