Episcopal Diocese of Vermont
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.
The diocese reported 6,539 members in 2015 and 4,045 members in 2023; no membership statistics were reported in 2024 parochial reports. Plate and pledge income for the 43 filing congregations of the diocese in 2024 was $3,879,184. Average Sunday attendance was 1,365 persons.
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.
- 11. Shannon MacVean-Brown,