Megan Traquair

Megan McClure Traquair is an American Prelate and the VIII Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California.

Early life

Traquair was raised in Santa Barbara. She attended Pomona College, where she majored in cultural anthropology and public policy analysis and graduated in 1985. She received her Master of Divinity from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Illinois.

Career

Traquair was ordained a deacon at St. Francis Episcopal Church in Palos Verdes Estates, California, on June 15, 1991 and was ordained to the Sacred Order of Priests at St. John's Pro-Cathedral in Los Angeles, California, on January 11, 1992, both by Bishop Frederick Houk Borsch of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.
On February 3, 2019, Traquair was elected by the Special Electing Convention held at Faith Episcopal Church in Cameron Park, California. She was elected on the third ballot.
She was ordained and consecrated the eighth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California on June 29, 2019, at the Mondavi Center in Davis, California. The Most Reverend Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, served as the chief consecrator.