Eugene Sutton Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Reverend
Eugene Sutton
Bishop of Maryland
Church:Episcopal Church
Province:III
Diocese:Maryland
Elected:June 29, 2008
Term:2008–2024
Predecessor:Robert W. Ihloff
Consecration:June 28, 2008
Consecrated By:Katharine Jefferts Schori
Birth Date:9 January 1954
Birth Place:Washington, D.C., US
Religion:Anglican
(prev. Baptist)
Spouse:Sonya Subbayya Sutton
Children:4
Alma Mater:Hope College
Western Theological Seminary
Princeton Theological Seminary
Sewanee: The University of the South

Eugene Taylor Sutton (born January 9, 1954)[1] is an American Episcopal clergyman who served as the 14th Episcopal Bishop of Maryland.

Early life and education

Sutton grew up in Washington, D.C., in a Baptist family. In 1976 he graduated from Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He later earned a Master of Divinity degree from Western Theological Seminary in the same city and was ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Reformed Church in America. Sutton continued his graduate studies at Princeton Theological Seminary, and after a few years joined the Episcopal Church, completing his Anglican ministry training in 1993 at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.[2]

Career

Sutton served in parishes in New Jersey and Washington, D.C., and taught at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, the Vanderbilt University Divinity School and the General Theological Seminary.

On June 28, 2008, he was consecrated as Bishop of Maryland, having been elected at the previous diocesan convention on the first ballot. The consecration was held at the Washington National Cathedral, where Sutton had served as canon pastor. He became the first African American bishop for the Diocese of Maryland, and was installed in the Cathedral of the Incarnation on June 29, 2008.

On September 17, 2021, he announced his intention to retire in 2024.[3] He was succeeded by the Rt. Rev. Canon Carrie Schofield-Broadbent, who was elected bishop coadjutor in 2023.[4]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Episcopal Clerical Directory 2013 (2013). New York: Church Publishing Inc., p. 936.
  2. Web site: Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton . Institute for Sustainable Communities . 2020-12-26.
  3. https://episcopalmaryland.org/bishop-search/ Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, Search for the Fifteenth Bishop of Maryland
  4. https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2023/03/27/maryland-diocese-elects-carrie-schofield-broadbent-bishop-coadjutor/ Episcopal News Service, "Maryland diocese elects Carrie Schofield-Broadbent bishop coadjutor"