John Sheridan Smylie

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The Right Reverend

John Sheridan Smylie
Bishop of Wyoming
Church Episcopal Church
Diocese Wyoming
ElectedMarch 20, 2010
In office2010–2021
Predecessor Bruce Edward Caldwell
Successor Paul-Gordon Chandler
Orders
Ordination1982
by  John Shelby Spong
ConsecrationJuly 31, 2010
by  Katharine Jefferts Schori
Personal details
Nationality American
Denomination Anglican
SpouseBetsy Dawn Inskeep (died 1999)
Jill Smylie
Children2

John Sheridan Smylie served as the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Wyoming from 2010 to 2020.

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Biography

Smylie graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse University, and a Master of Divinity from the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1981. He was ordained deacon in 1981, and priest in the Diocese of Newark in 1982. He served as associate rector of Calvary Church in Summit, New Jersey, and then rector of Trinity Church in Hamburg, New York. Between 1998 and 2005, he served as Dean of the Cathedral of St John the Evangelist in Spokane, Washington. Between 2007 and 2010, he served as rector of St Mark's Church in Casper, Wyoming. [1]

He was elected bishop on March 20, 2010, consecrated on July 31, 2010, and installed in his cathedral on August 8, 2010. [2]

He was married to the Reverend Betsy Dawn Inskeep Smylie, author and episcopal priest who served as missioner to the deaf for the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York from 1989 to the spring of 1998. [3] Betsey died in 1999. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Wyoming Bishop John Smylie calls for election of his successor", Episcopal News Service, April 25, 2019. Retrieved on May 6, 2021.
  2. ↑ McCaughan, P. "WYOMING: John Sheridan Smylie consecrated bishop in joyous celebration", Episcopal News Service, August 2, 2010. Retrieved on May 5, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Betsy Dawn Inskeep Smylie". Harvard Magazine. 95: 94. 1992.
  4. ↑ "REV. BETSY SMYLIE DIES AT 45; EPISCOPAL MISSIONER". Buffalo News. 1999.


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