Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
Samuel Rodman III | |
Bishop of North Carolina | |
Church: | Episcopal Church |
Diocese: | North Carolina |
Elected: | March 4, 2017 |
Term: | 2017–present |
Ordination: | August 22, 1987 (deacon) March 19, 1988 (priest) |
Ordained By: | Andrew F. Wissemann |
Consecration: | July 15, 2017 |
Birth Name: | Samuel Sewall Rodman III |
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Nationality: | American |
Spouse: | Deborah Rodman |
Children: | 2 |
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Alma Mater: | Bates College Virginia Theological Seminary |
Samuel Sewall Rodman III is an American Episcopal bishop. On March 4, 2017, he was elected as the 12th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina,[1] and was consecrated on July 15, 2017, by his predecessor, Presiding Bishop Michael Bruce Curry.[2] Prior to his consecration, he was served as Special Projects Officer in the Diocese of Massachusetts. Previously, he was a parish priest.[3]
Rodman attended public schools for 10 years, then transferred to South Kent School for his last two years of high school.[4] In 1981, he graduated from Bates College with a B.A. in English; he later studied theology at Virginia Theological Seminary.[4]