Samuel Sewall Rodman III is an American

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bishop. On March 4, 2017, he was elected as the 12th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, and was

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on July 15, 2017, by his predecessor, Presiding Bishop Michael Bruce Curry. Prior to his consecration, he was served as Special Projects Officer in the Diocese of Massachusetts. Previously, he was a parish priest.

Education

Rodman attended public schools for 10 years, then transferred to

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for his last two years of high school. In 1981, he graduated from Bates College with a B.A. in English; he later studied theology at Virginia Theological Seminary.

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