Sean Rowe
Sean Rowe | |
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| 28th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church | |
Rowe in 2014 | |
| Church | Episcopal Church |
| In office | 2024–present |
| Predecessor | Michael Curry |
| Previous post(s) |
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| Orders | |
| Ordination | December 2, 2000 by Robert D. Rowley |
| Consecration | September 8, 2007 by Katharine Jefferts Schori |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Sean Walter Rowe February 16, 1975 |
| Denomination | Episcopalian |
| Spouse | Carly Rowe |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | Grove City College Virginia Theological Seminary Gannon University |
Sean Walter Rowe (born February 16, 1975) is an American bishop who has served as the 28th Presiding Bishop and primate of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America since 2024.
Ordained as a priest in 2000, Rowe served for 7 years as rector for Saint John's Episcopal Church in Franklin, Pennsylvania and was ordained and consecrated as the 8th Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania in September 2007, a position in which he remained for 17 years before succeeding Michael Curry as Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in November 2024. Rowe has also served as a provisional bishop for both the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem and the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York.
He was the youngest Episcopal priest in the United States at the time of his ordination to the priesthood in 2000, and was the youngest member of the House of Bishops upon his consecration as a bishop in 2007 at the age of 32.