The Episcopal Diocese of Washington is a diocese of the Episcopal Church covering Washington,D.C.,and nearby counties of Maryland in the United States. With a membership of over 38,000,the diocese is led by the Bishop of Washington,Mariann Budde. It is home to Washington National Cathedral,which is the seat of both the diocesan bishop and the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.
A presiding bishop is an ecclesiastical position in some denominations of Christianity.
St. John's Church is an Episcopal church located at 2401 East Broad Street in Richmond,Virginia,United States. Formed from several earlier parishes,St. John's is the oldest church in the city of Richmond,Virginia. It was built in 1741 by William Randolph's son,Colonel Richard Randolph;the Church Hill district was named for it. It was the site of two important conventions in the period leading to the American Revolutionary War,and is famous as the location where American Founding Father Patrick Henry gave his memorable speech at the Second Virginia Convention,closing with the often-quoted demand,"Give me liberty,or give me death!" The church is designated as a National Historic Landmark.
Robert William Duncan is an American Anglican bishop. He was the first primate and archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) from June 2009 to June 2014. In 1997,he was elected bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh. In 2008,a majority of the diocesan convention voted to leave the diocese and the Episcopal Church and,in October 2009,named their new church the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh. Duncan served as bishop for the new Anglican diocese until 10 September 2016 upon the installation of his successor,Jim Hobby.
William White was the first and fourth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States,the first bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania (1787–1836),and the second United States Senate Chaplain. He also served as the first and fourth President of the House of Deputies for the General Convention of the Episcopal Church.
Ecclesiastical polity is the government of a church. There are local (congregational) forms of organization as well as denominational. A church's polity may describe its ministerial offices or an authority structure between churches. Polity relates closely to ecclesiology,the theological study of the church.
The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh is a diocese in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Geographically,it encompasses 11 counties in Western Pennsylvania. It was formed in 1865 by dividing the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. The diocesan cathedral is Trinity Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh. The Rt. Rev. Ketlen A. Solak was consecrated and seated as its current bishop in autumn 2021.
The House of Deputies is one of the legislative houses of the bicameral General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. The other is the House of Bishops.
Harry Lee Doll,was bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Maryland during the turmoil concerning civil rights for minorities and women in the 1960s.
The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) is a Christian denomination in the Anglican tradition in the United States and Canada. It also includes ten congregations in Mexico,two mission churches in Guatemala,and a missionary diocese in Cuba. Headquartered in Ambridge,Pennsylvania,the church reported 977 congregations and 124,999 members in 2022. The first archbishop of the ACNA was Robert Duncan,who was succeeded by Foley Beach in 2014.
The Episcopal Church (TEC),based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere,is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine provinces. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Michael Bruce Curry,the first African American bishop to serve in that position.
Timothy Foster Sedgwick is an American Episcopal ethicist. In addition to being the Clinton S. Quin Professor of Christian Ethics at Virginia Theological Seminary,he has served since 2007 as Vice President and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs.
Keith Lynn Ackerman is an American Anglican bishop. Consecrated as a bishop for the Diocese of Quincy in the Episcopal Church,he is currently bishop vicar of the Anglican Diocese of Quincy of the Anglican Church in North America and assisting bishop of the Diocese of Fort Worth.
Mary Adelia Rosamond McLeod was the first woman diocesan bishop in the Episcopal Church. She was elected bishop of the Diocese of Vermont on June 5,1993,at a special convention held at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Burlington. Clergy and lay delegates selected her from among five nominees.
Robert Hallowell Gardiner III was an Episcopal layman and ecumenist,head of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew and one of the founders of the World Council of Churches. A prominent lawyer in Maine and Boston until his retirement for health reasons,he was the great-grandson of Dr. Silvester Gardiner,the founder of Gardiner,Maine,and a trustee for the Gardiner Lyceum school and the Roxbury Latin School.
Paul Eugene Krizek is an American politician. He has served in the Virginia House of Delegates since 2016,representing the 16th district of Virginia in Fairfax County. Krizek is a member of the Democratic Party.
Albert Theodore "Ted" Eastman was an American prelate who served as the twelfth Bishop of Maryland from 1986 to 1994.
Herbert Alcorn Donovan Jr. is an American Episcopal cleric and administrator who served as the bishop of Arkansas.
Mary Aydelotte Rice Marshall was an American civic activist,housewife and Democratic politician who represented Arlington,Virginia in the Virginia General Assembly for more than twenty years.
John Hewitt Rodgers Jr. (1930–2022) was an American Anglican theologian and bishop. The author of multiple commentaries on the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion,he was a founding faculty member at Trinity School for Ministry and served as its dean and president from 1978 to 1990. In 2000,he played a role in the global Anglican realignment when he was consecrated as a bishop of the Anglican Church of Rwanda to oversee congregations in North America through the Anglican Mission in America.
