This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:  "Episcopal Diocese of Vermont" –  news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this message)

Diocese of Vermont
Location
Country	United States
Territory	Vermont
Ecclesiastical province	Province I
Statistics
Congregations	45 (2022)
Members	4,542 (2022)
Information
Denomination	Episcopal Church
Established	September 20, 1790
Cathedral	Cathedral of St Paul
Current leadership
Bishop	Shannon MacVean-Brown
Map
Location of the Diocese of Vermont
Website
www.diovermont.org

The Episcopal Diocese of Vermont is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the state of Vermont. It was the first diocese in the Episcopal Church to elect a woman, Mary Adelia Rosamond McLeod, as diocesan bishop.

The see city is Burlington, where the Cathedral Church of St. Paul is located.

Bishops

• 1. John Henry Hopkins, 1832–1868;
• 2. William H. A. Bissell, 1868–1893;
• 3. Arthur C. A. Hall, 1894–1929
  • William Farrar Weeks, coadjutor, 1913–1914;
  • George Y. Bliss, coadjutor, 1915–1924;
  • Samuel B. Booth, coadjutor, 1925–1929
• 4. Samuel B. Booth, 1929–1935;
• 5. Vedder Van Dyck, 1936–1960;
• 6. Harvey Butterfield, 1961–1973;
• 7. Robert S. Kerr, 1974–1986;
  • Daniel L. Swenson, coadjutor, 1986;
• 8. Daniel L. Swenson, 1987–1993;
• 9. Mary Adelia Rosamond McLeod, 1993–2001;
• 10. Thomas Clark Ely, 2001–2019. ^[1]
• 11. Shannon MacVean-Brown, (2019–present)

On May 18, 2019, the church elected Shannon MacVean-Brown as the eleventh Bishop of Vermont. Macvean-Brown was consecrated on September 28, 2019 in Ira Allen Chapel in Burlington. ^[2] Macvean-Brown is the first African-American Bishop of Vermont. ^[2]

Diocesan churches of historical interest

Present or former diocesan churches listed on the National Register of Historic Places include:

• Christ Church (Guilford, Vermont)
• Church of Our Saviour (Killington, Vermont)
• St. Ann's Episcopal Church (Richford, Vermont)
• St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church (Montgomery, Vermont)
• St. John's Episcopal Church (Highgate Falls, Vermont)
• St. James' Episcopal Church (Arlington, Vermont)

References

External links

• Official Web site of the Diocese of Vermont
• Journal of the Annual Convention, Diocese of Vermont at the Online Books Page
• The Correspondence of John A. Graham with His Grace of Canterbury: When on His Mission as Agent of the Church of Vermont, to the Ecclesiastical Courts of Canterbury and York, for the consecration of Dr. Peters, Bishop-elect of Vermont, 1794–5, etc. 1835

44°00′N 72°42′W / 44°N 72.7°W / 44; -72.7