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Audrey Scanlan

The Right Reverend Dr.
Audrey Cady Scanlan
Bishop of Central Pennsylvania
Church Episcopal Church (USA)
Province III
Diocese Central Pennsylvania
See Harrisburg
In office 2015 to Present
Predecessor Nathan D. Baxter
Orders
Consecration September 12, 2015
by Katharine Jefferts Schori
Personal details
Nationality American
Denomination Episcopalian
Spouse Glenn
Children 3
Education Hartford Seminary
Berkeley Divinity School
Yale Divinity School
Central Connecticut State Univ.
Wheaton College

Audrey Cady Scanlan is a bishop of the Episcopal Church. She was consecrated as the 11th and current bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania on September 12, 2015.

Scanlan was born in New York and later moved to Connecticut where she has lived for over 50 years. She received seminary education at the Yale Divinity School where she received a master's degree in theology in 2008. She continued her education at Hartford Seminary, receiving a Doctor of Ministry degree in 2013.

On March 14, 2015, Scanlan was elected to the post of Bishop of Central Pennsylvania, on the second ballot from a field of three candidates. She received 79 of 147 lay votes and 50 of 79 clergy votes (74 lay votes and 40 clergy votes were required for election). Scanlan succeeded the Right Reverend Nathan D. Baxter, who retired in May 2014 after serving as Bishop of Central Pennsylvania for eight years, as well as the Rt. Rev. Robert Gepert who had served as provisional bishop.


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