Frank Griswold

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The Most Reverend Frank Tracy Griswold
Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United Stated of America

The Most Reverend Frank Tracy Griswold III is the 25th Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

Bishop Griswold was educated at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and earned an A.B. in English literature from Harvard College (1959). He attended the General Theological Seminary and earned his B.A. and M.A. in theology from Oriel College, Oxford University (1962, 1966). He has received honorary degrees from the General Theological Seminary, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Nashotah House, Sewanee, The University of the South and Berkeley Divinity School.

Before becoming Presiding Bishop, Griswold was Bishop of Chicago (1987-1997) and Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese (1985-1987). He was ordained in 1963 and served three parishes in the Diocese of Pennsylvania before being consecrated to the episcopacy.

Currently, Griswold is a member of the Joint Standing Committee of the Primates of the Anglican Communion and the Anglican Consultative Council. He was co-chair of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission from 1998 to 2003, and a member of the standing committee for the 1998 Lambeth Conference. He has also served on diocesan, national and international committees for liturgy, worship and ecumenism.

He was elected Presiding Bishop at General Convention in 1997. His term will expire in November 2006, when he will be replaced by the Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, who will become the first female primate of any church within the Anglican Communion.

Consecrators:

• The Most Reverend John M. Allin, 23rd Presiding Bishop
• The Right Reverend Francis G. Burrill, 8th Bishop of Chicago
• The Right Reverend James W. Montgomery, 9th Bishop of Chicago

Frank Griswold was the 794th bishop consecrated in the Episcopal Church.

External links

• Griswold's official website as Presiding Bishop.
• Griswold's biography from the Presiding Bishop's website.