David Earle Bailey (March 30, 1940 – July 28, 2024) was an American Episcopalian clergyman who was bishop of the
Missionary Diocese of Navajoland, a missionary diocese of the
Episcopal Church. He was consecrated bishop on August 7, 2010.
Bailey was ordained to the priesthood in 1980 and received an MDiv from the
Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest. He had previously served as rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Phoenix, Arizona, and as canon to the ordinary and development director in the
Episcopal Diocese of Utah
The Episcopal Diocese of Utah is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States encompassing the state of Utah, other than the southeastern part of the Utah which is included in the Navajoland Area Mission. The diocese also includes a smal ...
. He was a member of
Bishops Against Gun Violence.
Consecrated bishop at age 70, he was the second oldest person to be made a bishop in the Episcopal Church and the first septuagenarian since the eighteenth-century.
Bailey died on July 28, 2024, at the age of 84.
References
External links
Diocesan biographyBishops Against Gun ViolenceFormer Navajoland Bishop David Bailey dies at 84
Episcopal News Service
1940 births
2024 deaths
Episcopal bishops of Navajoland
People from Canton, Ohio
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