1. Joseph Strickland (1958)

American Bishop

Notable as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tyler, Texas, Strickland ascended to his position in late 2012.

2. Mark Hanson (1946)

American Bishop

The 11th President of the Lutheran World Federation and the Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

3. Eddie Long (1953)

American Bishop

Senior pastor of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch in Georgia.

4. Paul S. Morton (1950)

American Bishop

The founder, bishop, and pastor of a born-again Christian organization called the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, he also had a career as a gospel singer and became the Chief...

5. Sean W. Rowe (1975)

American Bishop

The Rt. Rev. Sean W. Rowe is the eighth Episcopal Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania.

6. David Dollahite (1958)

American Bishop

David Dollahite is a professor of family life at Brigham Young University who specializes in the effects of religion on marriage family life and youth. Dollahite was born in Greenbrae...

7. Thomas Bickerton (1958)

American Bishop

Thomas J. Bickerton is an American United Methodist bishop. Bickerton was raised in West Virginia and graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts degree...

8. Herbert W. Chilstrom (1931)

American Bishop

Herbert W. Chilstrom is an American religious leader who served as the first Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He was re-elected to a four-year term at...

9. Guy Sansaricq (1934)

American Bishop

Guy Sansaricq was born in Jérémie Haiti into a Catholic family. He attended the seminary of the Jeremie Diocese for five years after which he received a scholarship to St....

10. Jane Dixon (1937)

American Bishop

Jane Holmes Dixon was an American Episcopal bishop. She was a Suffragan Bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and served as Bishop of Washington pro tempore from 2001 to...

11. Charles E. Blake (1940)

American Bishop

Bishop Charles Edward Blake Sr. serves as the Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ Inc. a 6 million-member Pentecostal-Holiness denomination. On March 21 2007 he became...

12. Carolyn Tanner Irish (1940)

American Bishop

Carolyn Tanner Irish is a retired American bishop. She was the 10th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah. At the time of her election and consecration in 1996 she...

13. Daniel W. Herzog (Unknow)

American Bishop

Daniel Wilfie Herzog is a retired bishop of the Episcopal Church who served in the Diocese of Albany from 1998 to 2007. After his retirement he became a Roman Catholic...

14. Charles E. Bennison (1943)

American Bishop

Charles Ellsworth Bennison Jr. was the 15th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.

15. Russell Jacobus (1944)

American Bishop

Russell Edward Jacobus was the seventh Bishop of the Diocese of Fond du Lac in The Episcopal Church. Jacobus was consecrated as bishop on 24 May 1994. Prior to becoming...

16. Nedi Rivera (1946)

American Bishop

Nedi Rivera is a suffragan bishop and Episcopal priest. She is the first Hispanic woman bishop and the 12th woman bishop in the Episcopal Church. Her father Bishop Victor Manuel...

17. J. Jon Bruno (1946)

American Bishop

Joseph Jon Bruno is the Episcopal Bishop of Los Angeles.

18. Michael Curry (bishop) (1953)

American Bishop

The Rt. Rev. Michael Bruce Curry is a bishop in the Episcopal Church.

19. Wilma Kucharek (1954)

American Bishop

Rev. Wilma S. Kucharek is bishop of the Slovak Zion Synod. Bishop Kucharek was born September 19 1954 in Johnson City New York and baptized in the Slovak language at...

20. Mary Glasspool (1954)

American Bishop

Mary Douglas Glasspool is a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Los Angeles in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. She is the first open lesbian to...

21. David Talley (1950)

American Bishop

David Prescott Talley is an auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta in Georgia. He was ordained a bishop on April 2 2013.

22. Mariann Budde (Unknow)

American Bishop

Mariann Edgar Budde is the diocesan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. She was consecrated as the ninth Bishop of Washington in the Washington National Cathedral on November 12...

23. John Lipscomb (1950)

American Bishop

John Bailey Lipscomb is a former Episcopalian bishop who later became a Roman Catholic priest. Lipscomb's father was a Baptist pastor and Lipscomb grew up in the Baptist tradition. Lipscomb's...

24. Mary Virginia Taylor (1950)

American Bishop

Mary Virginia Taylor is a bishop in The United Methodist Church in the U. S. serving the Holston Conference. She was elected in 2004 on the 34th ballot receiving 354...

25. Mark Lawrence (bishop) (1950)

American Bishop

Mark Joseph Lawrence is an American bishop. He became the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina in 2008. In November 2012 the diocese under his leadership withdrew from...

26. Noel Jones (Pentecostal bishop) (1950)

American Bishop

Noel Jones is an American minister. He is the senior pastor of the City of Refuge Church in Gardena California which has about 17000 members and was formerly the Greater...

27. Gayle Harris (1951)

American Bishop

Gayle Elizabeth Harris was ordained as Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts in 2003 succeeding Barbara Harris. This was the first time in the Episcopal Church in the...

28. Bruce Ough (1951)

American Bishop

Bruce R. Ough is a United Methodist Church bishop elected in 2000.

29. E.W. Jackson (1952)

American Bishop

Earl Walker Jackson Sr. is an American politician Christian minister and lawyer in Virginia. On May 18 2013 he was nominated as the Republican Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor...

30. Mary Gray-Reeves (1962)

American Bishop

Mary Gray-Reeves became the first woman Episcopal diocesan bishop in California on November 10 2007 when she was ordained and consecrated the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of El...

31. Bishop Karas (Unknow)

American Bishop

Bishop Karas was the first bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United States and the first abbot of the church's first monastery outside of Egypt.

32. Gary E. Stevenson (1955)

American Bishop

Gary Evan Stevenson has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since April 2008. He is currently the church's Presiding Bishop and is the...

33. John Michael Botean (1955)

American Bishop

John Michael Botean is an American Eastern Catholic cleric of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church. He is currently serving as the second bishop in the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of St...

34. Scott Mayer (bishop) (1955)

American Bishop

James Scott Mayer is the fifth Bishop of Northwest Texas in The Episcopal Church. He was elected after two ballots in an electing convention at St. Paul's on the Plains...

35. Orange Seely (1843)

American Bishop

Orange Seely was a Mormon pioneer and early settler of Utah. He is best known as the settler of the towns of Castle Dale and Orangeville Utah. Seely was born...

36. Paul Sirba (1960)

American Bishop

Paul David Sirba is the current bishop of Duluth since his installation on 14 December 2009. Sirba was born in the city of Saint Paul Minnesota. He completed his studies...

37. Thomas Bowman (Evangelical Association bishop) (1836)

American Bishop

Thomas Bowman was a Bishop of the Evangelical Association elected in 1875. He was born in Lehigh Township Northampton County Pennsylvania. He studied at the Vanderveers Seminary in Easton Pennsylvania....

38. Frank E. Wilson (bishop) (1885)

American Bishop

Elmer Wilson was the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Eau Claire serving from the creation of the diocese in 1928 until his death in 1944.

39. Christopher Gadsden (bishop) (1785)

American Bishop

Christopher Edwards Gadsden was the fourth Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina. Gadsden was born in Charleston South Carolina in 1785 the son of Phillip Gadsden and his wife Catherine Edwards....

40. Levi Scott (bishop) (1802)

American Bishop

Levi Scott was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church elected in 1852.

41. William Gordon (Bishop of Alaska) (Unknow)

American Bishop

Jones Gordon Jr. bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alaska from 1948 to 1974 was known as the Flying Bishop of Alaska for his ministry of flying his own plane...

42. William H. Love (1957)

American Bishop

Howard Bill Love is the 9th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany in the United States.

43. Franciszek Hodur (1866)

American Bishop

Bishop Franciszek Hodur was the founder and the first and longtime Prime Bishop of the Polish National Catholic Church. Hodur was born on Easter Sunday April 1 1866 to Jan...

44. John Shelby Spong (1931)

American Bishop

John Shelby Jack Spong is a retired American bishop of the Episcopal Church. From 1979 to 2000 he was Bishop of Newark. He is a liberal Christian theologian religion commentator...

45. Bernie L. Wade (1963)

American Bishop

Bernie L. Wade born on June 29 1963 in Lakewood Ohio is an American minister entrepreneur and author. He has served in a variety of roles including Senior Pastor and...