Episcopal Diocese of Vermont explained

Jurisdiction:	Diocese
Vermont
Province:	Province I
Bishop:	Shannon MacVean-Brown
Cathedral:	Cathedral of St Paul
Country:	United States
Established:	September 20, 1790
Congregations:	45 (2022)
Members:	4,542 (2022)
Website:	www.diovermont.org
Map:	ECUSA Vermont.png

The Episcopal Diocese of Vermont is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the state of Vermont. It was the first diocese in the Episcopal Church to elect a woman, Mary Adelia Rosamond McLeod, as diocesan bishop.

The see city is Burlington, where the Cathedral Church of St. Paul is located.

Bishops

• 1. John Henry Hopkins, 1832–1868;
• 2. William H. A. Bissell, 1868–1893;
• 3. Arthur C. A. Hall, 1894–1929
  • William Farrar Weeks, coadjutor, 1913–1914;
  • George Y. Bliss, coadjutor, 1915–1924;
  • Samuel B. Booth, coadjutor, 1925–1929
• 4. Samuel B. Booth, 1929–1935;
• 5. Vedder Van Dyck, 1936–1960;
• 6. Harvey Butterfield, 1961–1973;
• 7. Robert S. Kerr, 1974–1986;
  • Daniel L. Swenson, coadjutor, 1986;
• 8. Daniel L. Swenson, 1987–1993;
• 9. Mary Adelia Rosamond McLeod, 1993–2001;
• 10. Thomas Clark Ely, 2001–2019.^[1]
• 11. Shannon MacVean-Brown, (2019–present)

On May 18, 2019, the church elected Shannon MacVean-Brown as the eleventh Bishop of Vermont. Macvean-Brown was consecrated on September 28, 2019 in Ira Allen Chapel in Burlington.^[2] Macvean-Brown is the first African-American Bishop of Vermont.

Diocesan churches of historical interest

Present or former diocesan churches listed on the National Register of Historic Places include:

• Christ Church (Guilford, Vermont)
• Church of Our Saviour (Killington, Vermont)
• St. Ann's Episcopal Church (Richford, Vermont)
• St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church (Montgomery, Vermont)
• St. John's Episcopal Church (Highgate Falls, Vermont)
• St. James' Episcopal Church (Arlington, Vermont)

External links

• Official Web site of the Diocese of Vermont
• Journal of the Annual Convention, Diocese of Vermont at the Online Books Page
• The Correspondence of John A. Graham with His Grace of Canterbury: When on His Mission as Agent of the Church of Vermont, to the Ecclesiastical Courts of Canterbury and York, for the consecration of Dr. Peters, Bishop-elect of Vermont, 1794–5, etc. 1835

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Notes and References

1. Episcopal News Service, The Episcopal Church in Vermont announces slate of candidates for 11th bishop diocesan, 25 March 2019
2. Web site: 2019 Electing Convention Archive. 2019-05-20. The Episcopal Church in Vermont. en-US. 2019-07-29.