The General Convention is the primary governing and legislative body of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. With the exception of the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Constitution and Canons, it is the ultimate authority in the Episcopal Church, being the bureaucratic facility through which the collegial function of the episcopate is exercised. General Convention comprises two houses: the House of Deputies and the House of Bishops. It meets regularly once every three years; however, the House of Bishops meets regularly in between sessions of General Convention. The Bishops have the right to call special meetings of General Convention.
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 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.
Leontine Turpeau Current Kelly was an American bishop of the United Methodist 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. Dorsey W. M. McConnell was consecrated and seated as its current bishop in autumn 2012.
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 United Episcopal Church of North America (UECNA) is an Anglican church that is part of the Continuing Anglican movement. It is not part of the Anglican Communion.
Veronica L. Turner is an American politician who represents district 26 in the Maryland House of Delegates.
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 Christian 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 the bishop vicar of the Diocese of Quincy of the Anglican Church in North America and Assisting Bishop of Fort Worth. On July 1, 2020, he was appointed as Interim Bishop of the Diocese of the Southwest, by the Most Rev. Foley Beach, Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church in North America.
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 44th 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. the son of the Rev. Herbert A. Donovan and Marion Kirk Donovan, was born in Washington, D.C. on July 14, 1931. His parents had been missionaries to Liberia but his father was then rector of Truro Church, Fairfax, VA. He attended Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA and the University of Virginia. While at the University he served as president of the U. S. Student Christian Movement and was sent as a delegate to the third World Conference of Christian Youth in Travancore, South India in 1952. Graduating from Virginia Theological Seminary in 1957, he was ordained deacon by Bishop Frederick D. Goodwin of Virginia. He moved to Green River, WY, was ordained priest by Bishop J. Wilson Hunter of Wyoming and served as Rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church. In 1959, he married his wife, Mary Sudman and they had three children, all born in Basin WY while he served at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. In 1964, he became Executive Officer to Bishop C. Gresham Marmion of the Diocese of Kentucky and served in that position until he moved to Montclair, NJ in 1970 where he became Rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. Elected Bishop of Arkansas in 1980, he carried out an extended ministry from Little Rock until he retired on September 1, 1993 to become Vicar of Trinity Church, Wall Street and Assisting Bishop of New York. After his retirement from that position in 1998, he served in several interim positions: Provisional Bishop of Chicago 1998-99, Assisting Bishop of New Jersey 1999-2000, Anglican Observer at the United Nations, 2000-2001, Rector of Trinity Church, Boston March, 2005- May 2006.
