This list consists of the bishops in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, an independent province of the Anglican Communion. This shows the historical succession of the episcopate within this church.

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The number references the sequence of consecration. Two capital letters before their number identify bishops consecrated for missionary work outside of the United States. "Diocese" refers to the diocese 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 The Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America encompassing the counties of Philadelphia, Montgomery, Bucks, Chester and Delaware in the state of Pennsylvania. The Diocese has 36,641 m ...

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 *BAN =

Chiu Ban It Joshua Chiu Ban It (; – 9 November 2016) was the Bishop of Singapore from 1966 to 1981, and was the first indigenous Bishop of Singapore. Chiu graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of London in 1941 and was ordained after a peri ...

, Bishop of Singapore *BOY = Laish Boyd, Bishop of the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos *BRT = Tony Burton, Bishop of Saskatchewan *CAB = Daniel Pina Cabral,

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, Bishop of Western China *CAR = George Carey,

Archbishop of Canterbury The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. The current archbishop is Justi ...

*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 ...

, Bishop of Borneo *DAL = John Daly, Bishop in Korea *DAR = Frederick Darwent, Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney *ELA =

Riah El-Assal Riah Hanna Abu El-Assal ( ar, رياح حنا أبو العسل, , he, ריאח אבו אלעסל; born 6 November 1937 in Nazareth) is an Israeli Palestinian Anglican bishop, who was the Bishop in Jerusalem from 1997 to 2007. History Abu El ...

, Bishop of Jerusalem *FYF = Rollestone Fyffe, Bishop of Rangoon *GOM =

Ricardo Gomez Osnaya Ricardo Joel Gómez Osnaya is a bishop in the Anglican Church of Mexico. He became the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Western Mexico after his consecration on April 13, 2018. He previously served as archdeacon of San Luis Potosí San Luis Poto ...

, Bishop of Western Mexico *HAL = Ronald Hall,

Bishop of Victoria The Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong was (from 1849 to 1951) the Ordinary of a corporation sole including Hong Kong and South China that ministered to 20,000 Anglicans. Bishops *18491865 (ret.): George SmithHandbook to the Diocese of Victoria (Hong K ...

, Hong Kong (1932–1951) & Bishop of Hong Kong and Macao (1951–1966) *HIL = Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada (2007-2019) *HIN = John Hinchliffe, Bishop of Peterborough (1769–1794) *HOL = John Holder,

Archbishop of the West Indies The Archbishop of the West Indies is the Anglican primate of the Province of the West Indies, part of the worldwide Anglican Communion. History The West Indies became a self-governing province of the Church of England in 1883, when William Pierc ...

(2009-2018) *ISO = Andrew Haruhisa Iso, Bishop of Osaka *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 pri ...

, Archbishop of Calgary and

Metropolitan of Rupert's Land The Ecclesiastical Province of the Northern Lights, founded in 1875 as the Province of Rupert's Land, forms one of four ecclesiastical provinces in the Anglican Church of Canada. Territorial evolution The territory covered by the province is ro ...

*KIL = Robert Kilgour, Primus and Bishop of Aberdeen *LEA = Arthur Lea, Bishop of Kyushu *LYO =

Frank Lyons Francis "Frank" Raymond Lyons III (born 1954) is an American-born Anglican bishop who has been a missionary in South America. From 2001 to 2012, he was bishop of Bolivia. In 2012, he was appointed assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Pitts ...

Bishop of Bolivia The Anglican Church of South America ( es, Iglesia Anglicana de Sudamérica) is the ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Communion that covers six dioceses in the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. Formed in 198 ...

*MAR = William Markham, Archbishop of York *MAT = Carlos Matsinhe,

*MIL = Harold Miller, Bishop of Down and Dromore *MMS =

Melissa M. Skelton Melissa Maxine Skelton (born 1951) is the bishop provisional of the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia. She was previously the 9th Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster, a diocese in the Anglican Church of Canada, and was the 12th Metropolit ...

, 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 ...

, Bishop of Chekiang *MOO = John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury *MOS = Charles Moss, Bishop of Bath and Wells *MOU =

George Moule George Evans Moule (January 28, 1828, Gillingham, Dorset – March 3, 1912, Auckland Castle) was an Anglican missionary in China and the first Anglican bishop of mid-China. Biography He was the second of eight sons of Henry Moule, an inventor ...

Bishop of Mid-China A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or offic ...

*NOR = Frank Norris,

Bishop of North China The Diocese of North China ( zh, t=聖公會華北教區, w=Shêng Kung Hui Hua Pei Chiao Chʽü, l=Anglican Diocese of North China), also known as Hua Pei Diocese (), was an Anglican diocese in China established under the supervision of the Churc ...

*PET =

Arthur Petrie Arthur Petrie (died 19 April 1787) was the 37th bishop of the Diocese of Ross and Moray of the Scottish Episcopal Church. He was one of the three bishops to consecrate Samuel Seabury Samuel Seabury (November 30, 1729February 25, 1796) was the ...

Bishop of Moray and Ross The Bishop of Moray or Bishop of Elgin was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Moray in northern Scotland, one of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics. If the foundation charter of the monastery at Scone is reliable, then the Bishopric of Mor ...

*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 ch ...

, Bishop of London *ROB =

Basil Roberts Basil Coleby Roberts was an Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century. Born into a clerical family — his father was Henry Eugene Roberts — he was educated at Marlborough College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1912, hi ...

, Bishop of Singapore *ROW =

Francis Rowinski Francis Carl Rowinski (September 10, 1918 – August 4, 1990) was an American prelate and primate of the Polish National Catholic Church (PNCC). Born in Dickson City, Pennsylvania, Rowinski was ordained to the priesthood on May 17, 1939, c ...

, Polish National Catholic bishop *SCO = Charles Scott,

*SHE = Victor George Shearburn, Bishop of Rangoon *SHO =

David Shoji Tani The Right Reverend David Shoji Tani (谷昌二) is the bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Okinawa in the Anglican Church in Japan The ''Nippon Sei Ko Kai'' ( ja, 日本聖公会, translit=Nippon Seikōkai, lit=Japanese Holy Catholic Church), a ...

Bishop of Okinawa 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 repr ...

*SKI = John Skinner,

bishop coadjutor A coadjutor bishop (or bishop coadjutor) is a bishop in the Catholic, Anglican, and (historically) Eastern Orthodox churches whose main role is to assist the diocesan bishop in the administration of the diocese. The coadjutor (literally, "co- ...

of Aberdeen *STE = Krister Stendahl, Bishop of Stockholm *THO =

John Thomas John Thomas may refer to: Politics United Kingdom * John Thomas (c. 1490–1540/42), British Member of Parliament for Truro * John Thomas (c. 1531–1581/90), British Member of Parliament for Mitchell * John Thomas (British politician) (1897 ...

Bishop of Rochester The Bishop of Rochester is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Rochester in the Province of Canterbury. The town of Rochester has the bishop's seat, at the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, which was foun ...

*TSE =

Lindel Tsen The Rt. Rev. Philip Lindel Tsen (, January 7, 1885 – June 6, 1954) was a bishop of the Anglican Church in China (Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui; ). Tsen was the first Chinese Presiding Bishop of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui and was succeeded by Bisho ...

, Bishop of Honan *UEM =

Nathaniel Makoto Uematsu Nathaniel Makoto Uematsu (植松誠ナタナエル) is the current Anglican Bishop of the diocese of Hokkaidō, Japan and was the Primate of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Province of the Anglican Communion in Japan, until November 2020. Uematsu b ...

, Primate of The Nippon Sei Ko Kai and

Bishop of Hokkaido 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 repr ...

*VER = Joris Vercammen, Archbishop of Utrecht *WIL =

Cornelius Wilson Cornelius Joshua Wilson (November 2, 1932 – August 12, 2002) served as Anglican Bishop of Costa Rica from 1978 to 2001. Born in Siquirres, Limón, on November 2, 1932, the fourth of eight children born to parents Eliazar Mclean and Teresa Wils ...

Bishop of Costa Rica The Anglican Church in Central America ( es, Iglesia Anglicana de la Región Central de América, link=no) is a province of the Anglican Communion, covering five sees in Central America. History Four of the five dioceses of the Iglesia Anglican ...

*ZIE = Thaddeus F. Zielinski, Polish National Catholic bishop

Chart of bishop succession

* * * * * * * 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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101–200

201–300

301–400

401–500

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701–800

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901–1000

1001–1100

1101–1200

Bishops elect

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