Susan Brown Snook

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Susan Brown Snook (born 1962) is the fifth bishop of the Diocese of San Diego in The Episcopal Church. [1] She had worked as a certified public accountant and then as a director of Christian education and a director of lay ministries at an Episcopal church in Arizona before seminary. In 2012, she co-founded the Acts 8 Movement, a group dedicated to proclaiming resurrection in the Episcopal Church. [2]

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Ordained Ministry

Following her ordination as priest in 2003, she served several parishes in the Diocese of Arizona. [3] In 2006, she started a new congregation in Scottsdale, the Episcopal Church of the Nativity, which grew to an average Sunday attendance of 200 in its own church building in its first decade. [4] She has been a leading voice in calling the Episcopal Church to invest in starting new congregations. She worked with others, including Frank S. Logue, to add $2.8 million more dollars to the $3 million budgeted for evangelism and church planting for the Episcopal Church's 2016-2018 budget. [5] In 2017, she became canon in the Diocese of Oklahoma for church growth and development. [6]

Episcopal ministry

On June 15, 2019, she was consecrated and installed as bishop in St. Paul's Cathedral in San Diego, California. [7] She is the first woman to lead the diocese, which includes 44 churches in Southern California and Arizona. [8]

References

  1. ↑ "Biography". Bishop Susan. Episcopal Diocese of San Diego. 2020. Retrieved 2021-05-06. The Rt. Rev. Dr. Susan Brown Snook is the chief pastor of our diocese.
  2. ↑ "Biography". Bishop Susan. Episcopal Diocese of San Diego. 2020. Retrieved 2021-05-06. The Rt. Rev. Dr. Susan Brown Snook is the chief pastor of our diocese.
  3. ↑ "Biography". Bishop Susan. Episcopal Diocese of San Diego. 2020. Retrieved 2021-05-06. The Rt. Rev. Dr. Susan Brown Snook is the chief pastor of our diocese.
  4. ↑ Presiding bishop affirms support for church planters as they worry about future of network, grants, Episcopal News Service, 11 March 2025, retrieved March 15, 2025
  5. ↑ Presiding bishop affirms support for church planters as they worry about future of network, grants, Episcopal News Service, 11 March 2025, retrieved March 15, 2025
  6. ↑ "San Diego Elects Canon Snook". The Living Church . February 2, 2019.
  7. ↑ The Episcopal Diocese of San Diego (June 20, 2019). "Susan Brown Snook ordained and consecrated as new bishop of San Diego". Episcopal News Service. The Episcopal Church. The Rt. Rev. Susan Brown Snook was ordained and consecrated as the fifth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego on June 15 at St. Paul's Cathedral in San Diego.
  8. ↑ Jennewein, Chris (June 13, 2019). "Episcopal Diocese of San Diego Welcomes its First Female Bishop". The Times of San Diego.


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