Gomez affirmed the church’s historic doctrine of marriage and sought to deepen mutual accountability through his leadership in helping to create the Anglican Covenant.
Johnson was an advocate for the acceptance of gay and lesbian people, started the diocese’s first Latino congregation, and launched a capital campaign to raise $3 million for outreach.
Hays Rockwell focused on global advocacy (including Northern Ireland and South Africa), supporting vulnerable youth, and strengthening campus ministry.
William Burrill was widely regarded as the Episcopal Church’s stewardship guru in the 1990s, and his diocese produced a broadly distributed video on generosity.
Caldwell was a champion of total ministry in his rural diocese and was deeply moved by the experience of officiating at the funeral of LGBT icon Matthew Shepard.
