Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
Susan E. Goff | |
Suffragan Bishop and Ecclesiastical Authority of Virginia | |
Church: | Episcopal Church |
Diocese: | Virginia |
Elected: | April 21, 2012 |
Term: | 2012–2022 |
Ordination: | 1980 |
Consecration: | July 28, 2012 |
Consecrated By: | Katharine Schori |
Nationality: | American |
Religion: | Anglicanism |
Spouse: | Tom Holliday |
Alma Mater: | Douglass College Union Theological Seminary (New York City) |
Susan Ellyn Goff is an American prelate of the Episcopal Church. She was elected and consecrated as Suffragan Bishop of Virginia in 2012. She became Ecclesiastical Authority of the diocese in 2018 upon the retirement of Shannon Johnston, thirteenth bishop of the diocese.[1] She retired at the end of 2022.[2]
Goff was educated at Douglass College, then a woman's liberal arts college in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She trained for ordination at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and achieved a distinction in her Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree.[3]
Goff was ordained in 1980. She has spent all of her ordained ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.
On July 28, 2012, Goff was consecrated a bishop during a service at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia. The chief consecrator was Katharine Jefferts Schori (the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church), and the co-consecrators included Shannon S. Johnston (then Bishop of Virginia).[4]