This list consists of the

bishop A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ...

s in The Episcopal Church, an independent

province A province is an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman , which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire, Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

of the

Anglican Communion The Anglican Communion is a Christian Full communion, communion consisting of the Church of England and other autocephalous national and regional churches in full communion. The archbishop of Canterbury in England acts as a focus of unity, ...

. This shows the historical succession of the

episcopate A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of dioceses. The role ...

within this church.

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The number references the sequence of consecration. Two capital letters before their number identify bishops consecrated for

missionary A missionary is a member of a Religious denomination, religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.Thoma ...

work outside of the United States. "Diocese" refers to the

diocese In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, prov ...

for which the individual was ordained. Note, this does not mean it was the only diocese that bishop presided over. For example, the Diocese of Delaware was under the supervision of the Diocese of Pennsylvania under William White. "PB" refers to whether the bishop became a Presiding Bishop in TEC and, if so, which number in the sequence. Under consecrators, one finds numbers or letters referencing previous bishops on the list. If a series of letters is under "Consecrators", then the consecrators were bishops or archbishops from outside of the ECUSA: *BAK = Gilbert Baker, Bishop of Hong Kong and Macao *BAN = Chiu Ban It, Bishop of Singapore *BOY = Laish Boyd, Bishop of the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos *BRT = Tony Burton, Bishop of Saskatchewan *CAB = Daniel Pina Cabral, Bishop of Lebombo *CAS = William Cassels, Bishop of Western China *CAR =

George Carey George Leonard Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton (born 13 November 1935) is a retired Anglican bishop who was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002, having previously been the Bishop of Bath and Wells. During his time as archbishop the C ...

Archbishop of Canterbury The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the Primus inter pares, ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the bishop of the diocese of Canterbury. The first archbishop ...

*COR = Nigel Cornwall, Bishop of Borneo *DAL = John Daly, Bishop in Korea *DAR = Frederick Darwent, Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney *ELA = Riah El-Assal, Bishop of Jerusalem *FYF = Rollestone Fyffe, Bishop of Rangoon *GOM = Ricardo Gomez Osnaya, Bishop of Western Mexico *HAL =

Ronald Hall Ronald Owen Hall ( zh, t=何明華, j=Ho Ming Wah, p=Hé Mínghuá, first=j; 22 July 1895 in Newcastle upon Tyne – 22 April 1975 in Lewknor, Oxfordshire) was an English Anglican missionary bishop in Hong Kong and China in the mid 20th cen ...

, Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong (1932–1951) & Bishop of Hong Kong and Macao (1951–1966) *HIL = Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada (2007-2019) *HIN = John Hinchliffe, Bishop of Peterborough (1769–1794) *HOL = John Holder, Archbishop of the West Indies (2009-2018) *ISO = Andrew Haruhisa Iso, Bishop of Osaka *KER = Greg Kerr-Wilson, Archbishop of Calgary and Metropolitan of Rupert's Land *KIL =

Robert Kilgour Robert Kilgour (1714–1790) was a Scottish clergyman who served in the Scottish Episcopal Church as Bishop of Aberdeen from 1768 to 1786 and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church from 1782 to 1788. He was an outspoken supporter of the Jacobi ...

, Primus and

Bishop of Aberdeen The Bishop of Aberdeen (originally Bishop of Mortlach, in Latin Murthlacum) was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Aberdeen, one of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics, whose first recorded bishop is an early 12th-century cleric named Nech ...

*LEA = Arthur Lea, Bishop of Kyushu *LYO = Frank Lyons, Bishop of Bolivia *MAR = William Markham,

Archbishop of York The archbishop of York is a senior bishop in the Church of England, second only to the archbishop of Canterbury. The archbishop is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of York and the metropolitan bishop of the province of York, which covers the ...

*MAT = Carlos Matsinhe, Bishop of Lebombo *MIL = Harold Miller,

Bishop of Down and Dromore The Bishop of Down and Dromore is the Ordinary of the Church of Ireland Diocese of Down and Dromore in the Province of Armagh. The diocese is situated in the north east of Ireland, which includes all of County Down, about half of the city of Bel ...

*MMS = Melissa M. Skelton, IX Bishop of New Westminster *MOL = Herbert Molony, Bishop of Chekiang *MOO = John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury *MOS = Charles Moss,

Bishop of Bath and Wells The Bishop of Bath and Wells heads the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Province of Canterbury in England. The present diocese covers the overwhelmingly greater part of the (ceremonial) county of Somerset and a small area of D ...

*MOU = George Moule, Bishop of Mid-China *NOR =

Frank Norris Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. (March 5, 1870 – October 25, 1902) was an American journalist and novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalism (literature), naturalist genre. His notable works include ''M ...

, Bishop of North China *PET = Arthur Petrie, Bishop of Moray and Ross *POR = Beilby Porteus,

Bishop of London The bishop of London is the Ordinary (church officer), ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury. By custom the Bishop is also Dean of the Chapel Royal since 1723. The diocese covers of 17 boroughs o ...

*ROB = Basil Roberts, Bishop of Singapore *ROW = Francis Rowinski, Polish National Catholic bishop *SCO = Charles Scott, Bishop of North China *SHE = Victor George Shearburn, Bishop of Rangoon *SHO = David Shoji Tani, Bishop of Okinawa *SKI =

John Skinner John Skinner may refer to: Politicians * John Skinner (MP for Maldon), 1391–1393, MP for Maldon 1391 and 1393 * John Skinner (fl.1395-99), MP for Reigate 1395, 1397 and 1399 * John Skinner (fl.1414-20), MP for Reigate 1414, 1415 and 1420 *John Sk ...

bishop coadjutor A coadjutor bishop (or bishop coadjutor) ("co-assister" in Latin) is a bishop in the Latin Catholic, Anglican and (historically) Eastern Orthodox churches whose main role is to assist the diocesan bishop in administering the diocese. The coa ...

of Aberdeen *STE =

Krister Stendahl Krister Olofson Stendahl (21 April 1921 – 15 April 2008) was a Swedish theologian, New Testament scholar, and Church of Sweden Bishop of Stockholm. He also served as dean, professor, and professor emeritus at Harvard Divinity School. Life ...

, Bishop of Stockholm *THO = John Thomas,

Bishop of Rochester The Bishop of Rochester is the Ordinary (officer), ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Rochester in the Province of Canterbury. The town of Rochester, Kent, Rochester has the bishop's seat, at the Rochester Cathedral, Cathedral Chur ...

*TSE = Lindel Tsen, Bishop of Honan *UEM = Nathaniel Makoto Uematsu, Primate of The Nippon Sei Ko Kai and Bishop of Hokkaido *VER = Joris Vercammen, Archbishop of Utrecht *VIC = Victoria Matthews, Bishop of Christchurch, retired *WIL = Cornelius Wilson, Bishop of Costa Rica *ZIE = Thaddeus F. Zielinski, Polish National Catholic bishop

Chart of bishop succession

* * * * * * * The Roman numeral before the diocese name represents where in the sequence that bishop falls; ''e.g.,'' the fourth bishop of Pennsylvania is written "IV Pennsylvania". Where a diocese is in bold type it indicates that the bishop is a current bishop of that diocese.

1–100

101–200

201–300

301–400

401–500

501–600

601–700

701–800

801–900

901–1000

1001–1100

1101–1200

Bishops elect

Notes

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References

Sources

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