Samuel Sewall Rodman III is an American

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bishop. On March 4, 2017, he was elected as the 12th Bishop of the

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, and was

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on July 15, 2017, by his predecessor, Presiding Bishop

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. Prior to his consecration, he was served as Special Projects Officer in the Diocese of Massachusetts. Previously, he was a parish priest.

Education

Rodman attended public schools for 10 years, then transferred to

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for his last two years of high school. In 1981, he graduated from

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with a

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in English; he later studied theology at

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Education

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