Inclusive Episcopate

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

Samuel David Ferguson, Bishop of Liberia (IV)
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, Bishop of Liberia (VIII)
Consecration number: 451
Consecration date: April 17, 1945

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

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

Cedric Earl Mills, Bishop of the Virgin Islands (I)
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, Bishop of Liberia (X)
Consecration number: 652
Consecration date: August 6, 1970

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

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

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

Telesforo Alexander Isaac, Bishop of the Dominican Republic (II)
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, Bishop Suffragan of Long Island (III)
Consecration number: 760
Consecration date: June 20, 1981

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

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

Sturdie Wayman Downs, Bishop of Nicaragua (II)
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, Bishop of the Virgin Islands (III)
Consecration number: 819
Consecration date: February 24, 1987

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

Herbert Thompson, Jr., Bishop of Southern Ohio (VIII)
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, Bishop of Haiti (V)
Consecration number: 881
Consecration date: June 2, 1993

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

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

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

Lloyd Emmanuel Allen, Bishop of Honduras (III)
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, Bishop of the Virgin Islands (V)
Consecration number: 1003
Consecration date: June 11, 2005

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

Eugene Taylor Sutton, Bishop of Maryland (XV)
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, Bishop of Atlanta (X)
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, Bishop of Indianapolis (XI)
Consecration number: 1100
Consecration date: April 29, 2017

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

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

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

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

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

Ketlen Solak, Bishop of Pittsburgh (IV)
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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