Most if not all of them were born into a world where a woman could not become an Episcopal priest, let alone a bishop. The “Philadelphia 11” were ordained July 29, 1974, even though women’s ordination would not be approved by General Convention until 1976. The first authorized ordination of a woman was January 1, 1977.
In 1989, Barbara Harris became the first woman consecrated as a bishop in the Anglican Communion.
In 2006, Katharine Jefferts Schori became the first woman elected as a primate in the Anglican Communion.
Now the crowd is large enough to require a numbered legend for identification purposes. This photo was taken by the Rt. Rev. Deon K. Johnson, Bishop of Missouri, at the recent House of Bishops retreat at Camp McDowell in Nauvoo, Alabama.
Bishops are diocesan unless otherwise noted
- Mary Gray Reeves, El Camino Real (retired)
- Betsey Monnot, Iowa
- Martha Stebbins, Montana
- Laura Ahrens, Connecticut (suffragan)
- Anne Jolly, Ohio (coadjutor-elect)
- Bonnie Perry, Michigan
- Kai Ryan, Texas (suffragan)
- Mary Glasspool, New York (assistant)
- Jennifer Reddall, Arizona
- Kym Lucas, Colorado
- Anne Hodges-Copple, North Carolina (suffragan, retired)
- Shannon Duckworth, Louisiana
- Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, Indianapolis
- Elizabeth Gardner, Nevada
- Phoebe Roaf, West Tennessee
- Megan Traquair, Northern California
- Susan Goff, Virginia (suffragan, retired)
- Gayle Harris, Virginia (assistant)
- Cathleen Bascom, Kansas
- Diana Akiyama, Oregon
- Lucinda Ashby, El Camino Real
- Phyllis Spiegel, Utah
- Susan Haynes, Southern Virginia
- The Rev. Miguelina Howell, chaplain to the House of Bishops
- Melissa Skelton, Olympia (provisional)
- Susan Brown Snook, San Diego
- Chilton Knudsen, Chicago (assisting)
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Shannon MacVean-Brown, Vermont
- Glenda S. Curry, Alabama
- (obscured) Ruth Woodliff-Stanley, South Carolina
- Paula Clark, Chicago
- DeDe Duncan-Probe, Central New York
- Carlye Hughes, Newark
- Diane Jardine Bruce, West Missouri (provisional)
- Ketlen Solak, Pittsburgh
Kirk Petersen began reporting news for TLC as a freelancer in 2016, and was Associate Editor from 2019 to 2024, focusing especially on matters of governance in the Episcopal Church.
