Bishop Michael Bruce Curry
from North Carolina
Elected 27th Presiding
Bishop
of The Episcopal
Church
Media Release
The Episcopal Church
Office of Public Affairs
The Rt. Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, Bishop of the Episcopal
Diocese of North Carolina, was elected the 27th Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church on the first ballot on June 27. Bishop Curry, 62, is the first African-American to be elected
Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church. The
election occurred during the 78th General Convention of The Episcopal Church. Of the 174 votes tallied, Bishop Curry received 121 (89 needed
to elect).
Meet
Presiding Bishop-Elect Curry
Bishop Curry was ordained Bishop of North Carolina on June 17, 2000.
His experience includes:
1988-2000:
Rector, St. James' Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland
1982-1988: Rector, St. Simon of Cyrene Episcopal Church, Lincoln Heights, Ohio
1982-1988: Chaplain, Bethany School
1978-1982: Rector, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Winston Salem, North
Carolina
He has served on a number of Episcopal Church Committees, a
Commissions, Agencies, and Boards:
•
Chair, Board of Directors, Episcopal Relief & Development (current)
• Board of Trustees, Saint Augustine's University (current)
• North Carolina Council of Churches (current)
• Moral Monday movement (current)
• Chair, Advisory Committee, Office of Black Ministries (current)
• Bishop Visitor, Community of the Transfiguration (current)
• TREC/Task Force for Reimagining the Episcopal Church
• General Convention Committees: Evangelism, Global Mission
• Standing Commission on World Mission
• Union of Black Episcopalians
• Institute of Christian and Black Studies of Baltimore
• Ecumenical Clergy on the Square, Revival and Citizens on Patrol (Baltimore)
• Jubilee Ministry, St. James' Afterschool Academy, Baltimore
• Board, Episcopal Social Ministries, Diocese of Maryland
• Chair and Co-Chair, convention Planning Team, Diocese of Maryland
• Commission on Ministry, Dioceses of Maryland, Southern Ohio and North
Carolina
• General Board of Examining Chaplains
• Board and Faculty, College of Preachers
• Coordinator, The Racism Steering Committee, Diocese of Southern Ohio
• Board, Winston-Salem Urban League
He
holds a Bachelors of Arts, with High Honors from Hobart and William Smith
College; a Masters of Divinity from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale;
Continuing Studies at The College of Preachers, Princeton Theological Seminary,
Wake Forest University, The Ecumenical Institute of St. Mary's Seminary and
Institute of Jewish Christian Studies; and D.D., honors causa, from Sewanee The University of the
South, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, Virginia Theological Seminary,
and The Episcopal Divinity School
An
author, his publications include:
• Songs My Grandmother Sang (Morehouse Publishing, Spring 2015)
• Crazy Christians: a Call to Follow Jesus (Morehouse Publishing, 2013)
• "Some Strange Things Are Happening in Charlotte", opinion, (The
Huffington Post, Sept. 4, 2012)
• "Stay in the City", sermon (The African American Pulpit, Judson
Press, 1999 issue)
• "Abyssinian Annals," a weekly column( The Baltimore Times)
• Essay ("Joy", Forward Movement, 1995)
• Article Series (Episcopal Life, September 1993- May 1994)
• "Servant Woman" and "There's Power in the Word " ,
sermons ( Sermons that Work 11, Forward Movement Publications)
Married to Sharon, they are the parents of two adult children.
