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Charles Chapman Grafton

The Right Reverend Charles Chapman Grafton (April 12, 1830 – August 30, 1912) was the second Bishop of the Diocese of Fond du Lac in The Episcopal Church, in Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Jeffrey N. Steenson

Steenson was ordained as a priest of The Episcopal Church on June 29, 1980, and went on to serve as curate at All Saints' Church in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania and later as the rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont and St. Andrew's Church in Fort Worth, Texas.


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Albion W. Knight

His son, Albion W. Knight, Jr., also became a minister in the Episcopal Church, before joining the United Episcopal Church of North America and becoming its presiding bishop.

Barkley Thompson

Following his seminary education, Thompson was ordained first a deacon and then a priest by Bishop Don E. Johnson in the Diocese of West Tennessee of the Episcopal Church.

Bishop Potter

Bishop Horatio Potter (1802-1887) of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of New York

Bishop Alonzo Potter (1800-1865) of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Pennsylvania

Bishop Robinson

Bishop Gene Robinson, bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America

Charles V. Willie

Willie is a lay member of the Episcopal Church in the United State, a former member of its Executive Council and is a past vice president of the House of Deputies, one of two houses, with the House of Bishops, that makes up the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

Clifford Phelps Morehouse

In 1932, Morehouse succeeded Frederic Cook Morehouse as editor of The Living Church He was a member of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church, and served as President of the House of Deputies of General Convention from 1961 to 1967.

Dennis Canon

The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, a parish located in San Angelo, held a business meeting on November 12, 2006 and voted to

Diocese of Lexington

Episcopal Diocese of Lexington, a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America

Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana

He was also the first foreign missionary Bishop of the Episcopal Church as his oversight extended also to the Republic of Texas.

Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee

Nashotah House, in Nashotah, which is a seminary for the Episcopal Church, and St. John's Northwestern Military Academy in Delafield, Wisconsin, a private Episcopal military academy, are also located in the Diocese of Milwaukee.

Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island

In the first part of the 20th century, the Episcopal Church in Rhode Island focused on urban ministry with a focus on social concerns, led by Bishop William N. McVickar.

Frank Lyons

Lyons became known in the United States for providing oversight to theologically conservative Episcopal parishes who wished to break away from the Episcopal Church after its consecration of Gene Robinson as a bishop in 2003.

Henry Pierce

Henry Niles Pierce (1820–1899), diocesan bishop of Arkansas in the Episcopal Church

Mary Adelia McLeod

The Principal Consecrator was Edmond L. Browning, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church at that time.

Mary McLeod

Mary Adelia McLeod (born 1938), first woman Diocesan Bishop in the Episcopal Church

Missionary Bishop

In the Episcopal Church, the House of Bishops may, according to canon law, establish a mission in a geographic area that is not already governed by a diocesan bishop or by a church in communion with the Episcopal Church and appoint a missionary bishop to give oversight to that area.

Paul Fritts

In addition, the renowned German scholar and performer Harald Vogel has recorded on the Fritts organ at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Seattle (Op. 19).

Paul Langdon Ward

He served on Nelson Rockefeller's Commission on the Higher Education of Women, and was active in the peace movement in the U.S. in the Episcopal Peace Fellowship and on the Joint Commission of Peace of the Episcopal Church.

Peter E. Gillquist

A desire for Apostolic Succession led most members of the EOC to join the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America in 1987 after first investigating the Episcopal Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Greek Archdiocese, and the Orthodox Church in America (OCA).

Phil Brooks

Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), Bishop of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church during the early 1890s

Philip Freeman

He served as principal of the Theological College, Chichester, from 1846 to 1848, and was a canon and a reader in theology in Cumbrae College (the college built by the Earl of Glasgow in the island of Cumbrae, Buteshire) from 1853 to 1858, having at the same time charge of the episcopal church in that island.

Rex Linn

There he attended Heritage Hall and later Casady School, an independent school affiliated with the Episcopal Church, and was employed part-time at the Oklahoma City Zoo.

Samuel L. Patterson

He and his wife bequeathed Palmyra to the Episcopal Church as a school, which operated as The Patterson School from 1909 through 2009.

United Episcopal Church of North America

William White, as first Bishop of Pennsylvania, and 1st and 4th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, who in 1832 consecrated

William H. Love

On January 19, 2008, Love celebrated the eucharist at St. Andrew's church in Albany while hosting a visit by Dr Bonnie Anderson, president of the Episcopal Church's House of Deputies.