Inclusive Episcopate

James Theodore Holly, I Bishop of Haiti
Consecration number: 106a
Consecration date: November 8, 1874

Samuel David Ferguson, IV Bishop of Liberia
Consecration number: 139
Consecration date: June 24, 1885

Edward Thomas Demby, Bishop Suffragan for Colored Work
in the Diocese of Arkansas and the Province of the Southwest

Consecration number: 296
Consecration date: September 29, 1918

Henry Beard Delany, Bishop Suffragan in the Diocese of North Carolina
Consecration number: 298
Consecration date: 1918

Theophilus Momolu Fikah Gardiner, Bishop Suffragan of Liberia
Consecration number: 318
Consecration date: June 23, 1921

Bravid Washington Harris, VIII Bishop of Liberia
Consecration number: 451
Consecration date: April 17, 1945

Dillard Houston Brown, IX Bishop of Liberia
Consecration number: 580
Consecration date: January 6, 1961

John Melville Burgess, X Bishop of Massachusetts
Consecration number: 590
Consecration date: December 8, 1962

Cedric Earl Mills, I Bishop of the Virgin Islands
Consecration number: 593
Consecration date: April 19, 1963

Richard Beamon Martin, Bishop Suffragan of Long Island
Consecration number: 620
Consecration date: February 2, 1967

George Daniel Browne, X Bishop of Liberia
Consecration number: 652
Consecration date: August 6, 1970

Luc Anatole Jacques Garnier, IV Bishop of Haiti
Consecration number: 660
Consecration date: April 20, 1971

John Thomas Walker, VI Bishop of Washington
Consecration number: 664
Consecration date: June 29, 1971

Lemuel Barnett Shirley, IV Bishop of Panama
Consecration number: 675
Consecration date: February 19, 1972

Telesforo Alexander Isaac, II Bishop of the Dominican Republic
Consecration number: 678
Consecration date: March 9, 1972

Quintin Ebenezer Primo, Jr., Bishop Suffragan of Chicago
Consecration number: 683
Consecration date: September 20, 1972

Harold Louis Wright, Bishop Suffragan of New York
Consecration number: 694
Consecration date: February 2, 1974

Henry Irving Mayson, Bishop Suffragan of Michigan
Consecration number: 716
Consecration date: October 9, 1976

Walter Decoster Dennis, Bishop Suffragan of New York
Consecration number: 734
Consecration date: October 6, 1979

Henry Boyd Hucles, III Bishop Suffragan of Long Island
Consecration number: 760
Consecration date: June 20, 1981

Clarence Nicholas Coleridge, XIII Bishop of Connecticut
Consecration number: 763
Consecration date: October 23, 1981

James Hamilton Ottley, V Bishop of Panama
Consecration number: 779
Consecration date: June 24, 1984

Sturdie Wayman Downs, II Bishop of Nicaragua
Consecration number: 793
Consecration date: February 9, 1985

Arthur Benjamin Williams, Jr., Bishop Suffragan of Ohio
Consecration number: 812
Consecration date: October 11, 1986

Egbert Don Taylor, III Bishop of the Virgin Islands
Consecration number: 819
Consecration date: February 24, 1987

Orris George Walker, Jr., VII Bishop of Long Island
Consecration number: 826
Consecration date: April 9, 1988

Herbert Thompson, Jr., VIII Bishop of Southern Ohio
Consecration number: 829
Consecration date: September 24, 1988

Franklin Delton Turner, Bishop Suffragan of Pennsylvania
Consecration number: 831
Consecration date: October 7, 1988

Barbara Clementine Harris, Bishop Suffragan of Massachusetts
Consecration number: 834
Consecration date: February 11, 1989

Chester Lovelle Talton, Bishop Suffragan of Los Angeles
Consecration number: 861
Consecration date: January 26, 1991

Victor Alfonso Scantlebury, Bishop Suffragan of Panama
Consecration number: 864
Consecration date: March 15, 1991

Jean Zache Duracin, V Bishop of Haiti
Consecration number: 881
Consecration date: June 2, 1993

Theodore Althelbert Daniels, IV Bishop of the Virgin Islands
Consecration number: 931
Consecration date: June 30, 1997

Wendell Nathaniel Gibbs, Jr., X Bishop of Michigan
Consecration number: 950
Consecration date: February 5, 2000

Michael Bruce Curry, XI Bishop of North Carolina
Consecration number: 955
Consecration date: June 17, 2000

Lloyd Emmanuel Allen, III Bishop of Honduras
Consecration number: 971
Consecration date: October 20, 2001

Gayle Elizabeth Harris, Bishop Suffragan of Massachusetts
Consecration number: 981
Consecration date: January 18, 2003

Edward Ambrose Gumbs, V Bishop of the Virgin Islands
Consecration number: 1003
Consecration date: June 11, 2005

Nathan Dwight Baxter, X Bishop of Central Pennsylvania
Consecration number: 1010
Consecration date: October 21, 2006

Eugene Taylor Sutton, XV Bishop of Maryland
Consecration number: 1030        
Consecration date: June 28, 2008

Ogé Beauvoir, Bishop Suffragan of Haiti
Consecration number: 1064    
Consecration date: May 22, 2013

Robert C. Wright, X Bishop of Atlanta
Consecration number: 1069
Consecration date: October 13, 2013

Carl Wright, Bishop Suffragan for Armed Services and Federal Ministries
Consecration number: 1098
Consecration date: Feb. 11, 2017

Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, XI Bishop of Indianapolis
Consecration number: 1100
Consecration date: April 29, 2017

Carlye J. Hughes, XI Bishop of Newark
Consecration number: 1109 
Consecration date: September 22, 2018

Phoebe A. Roaf, IV Bishop of West Tennessee
Consecration number: 1116 
Consecration date: May 4, 2019

Kimberly Lucas, XI Bishop of Colorado
Consecration number: 1117 
Consecration date: May 18, 2019

Shannon MacVean-Brown, XI Bishop of Vermont
Consecration number: 1122 
Consecration date: September 28, 2019

Deon Johnson, XI Bishop of Missouri
Consecration number: 1133 
Consecration date: June 13, 2020

Ketlen Solak, IV Bishop of Pittsburgh
Consecration number: 1138 
Consecration date: November 13, 2021

This list reflects the members of the Black Episcopacy as shown on The Episcopal Church’s African Descent Ministries webpage, as of January 10, 2026.

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