Presiding Bishop the Right Reverend Sean Rowe

 

Presiding Bishop the Right Reverend Sean Rowe

The Rt. Rev. Sean Rowe, bishop of the Episcopal Dioceses of Northwestern Pennsylvania and Western New York, was elected and confirmed the 28th presiding bishop and primate of The Episcopal Church on June 26 for a nine-year term beginning on November 1, 2024.

Rowe was chosen from among five nominees on the first ballot. Following his election by the House of Bishops, the House of Deputies confirmed the election.

Rowe, 49, was ordained bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania in 2007 and became bishop provisional of Western New York in 2019. From 2014 to 2018, he served as bishop provisional of the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem. Born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, Rowe earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Grove City College, a master of divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary, and a doctorate in organizational learning and leadership from Gannon University. Rowe was the youngest Episcopal priest in the U.S. when he was ordained in 2000 at age 24, and he was the youngest member of the House of Bishops when he was ordained and consecrated at age 32.

Known for his research and work on organizational learning and adaptive performance in the church, Rowe serves as parliamentarian for the House of Bishops and the Episcopal Church Executive Council; chair of the Episcopal Church Building Fund; and as a member of the Standing Commission on Structure, Governance, and Constitution and Canons. He also serves on the Greater Buffalo Racial Equity Roundtable. In 2018, he became the first bishop to serve on the House of Deputies Committee on the State of the Church.

Rowe is married to Carly Rowe, a Christian educator; they have a daughter named Lauren.

The presiding bishop will be consecrated at the Washington National Cathedral on Nov. 1. Details about the transition and celebration will be announced after General Convention.

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Northern Exposure Literature Canon

 This is a list (sorted by episodes--some needed) of various works Chris has quoted or read from:[51]

• Walt Whitman, the complete works[9]
• Carl Jung, Man and his Symbols[4]
• Voltaire, Henriade[43]
• Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are[52]
• Tolstoy, War and Peace[50]
• Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human[1]
• Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death[40]
• Jack London, Call of the Wild[53]
• Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth[54]
• Holling Clancy Holling, Paddle-to-the-Sea[55]
• Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV[49]
• Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat[33]
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment[56]
• Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance[38]
• Herman Melville, Billy Budd[13]
• Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey[57]
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, When the Hounds of Spring Are on Winter's Traces[58]
• E.B. White, Charlotte's Web[58]
• Henry David Thoreau, The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau[59]
• John Whitaker Watson, Beautiful Snow And Other Poems[60]
• Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex: Volume Two, Lived Experience[61]
• Robert A. Johnson, She: Understanding Feminine Psychology[61]
• Carl Jung, The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man[62]
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude[62]
• Frederick Langridge, A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts[63]
• Thomas Paine, Rights of Man[63]
• Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America[63]
• William Wordsworth, Poems In Two Volumes[64]
• Henry David Thoreau, Walden[65]
• Robert Frost, A Boy's Will[66]
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems[34]
• Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat[67]
• Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream[11]

Unknown episodes

• Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
• Hegel, Early Technological Writings
• Emmanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
• Nietzsche, Logic and The Metaphysics of Morals
• Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil (in translation, Chris does not read French)
• The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
• Raymond Chandler, Red Wind
• Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces
• Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell (editor), The Portable Jung
• Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past