Mary Douglas Glasspool was born on February 23,1954 and is an American bishop in the Episcopal Church.
12 Facts About Mary Glasspool
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Mary Glasspool has been an assistant bishop in the Diocese of New York since 2016, having previously been suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles from 2010 to 2016.
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Mary Glasspool was the first openly lesbian woman to become a bishop in the Anglican Communion.
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Mary Glasspool later moved to Goshen, New York, where her father served as rector of St James' Church for 35 years until his death in 1989.
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Mary Glasspool graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1976 and received a Master of Divinity degree from Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1981.
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Mary Glasspool was ordained a deacon in June 1981 by the Rt.
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Mary Glasspool was canon to the bishops for the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland from 2001 to 2009.
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On December 4,2009, Mary Glasspool was elected as suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles on the seventh ballot at the diocese's 115th convention in Riverside, California.
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Mary Glasspool was the first openly lesbian woman to become a bishop in the Episcopal Church and the wider Anglican Communion, and only the 17th woman elected to as a bishop in the Episcopal Church.
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Mary Glasspool's election gained worldwide attention in the context of the ongoing debate about gay bishops in the Anglican church.
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In 2016 Mary Glasspool left the Diocese of Los Angeles following her election as assistant bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.
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Mary Glasspool is married to Becki Sander, with whom she has been in a relationship since the late 1980s.