Chilton R. Knudsen

The Right Reverend Chilton R. Knudsen
Assistant Bishop of Maryland
Church	Episcopal Church
Diocese	Diocese of Maryland
Appointed	May 2015
Installed	2015
Other posts	VIII Bishop of Maine Interim Bishop of Lexington Assistant Bishop of New York Assistant Bishop of Long Island
Orders
Ordination	1980 (deacon) 1981 (priest) 1997 (bishop)
Consecration	by Frank T. Griswold, Frederick Wolf, Geralyn Wolf
Personal details
Birth name	Chilton Abbie Richardson
Nationality	American
Spouse	Michael J. Knudsen
Alma mater	Chatham College Seabury-Western Theological Seminary

Chilton Abbie Richardson Knudsen is a bishop of the Episcopal Church. In May 2015, she was appointed to serve as assistant bishop in the Diocese of Maryland, and previously served as the diocesan bishop of Maine. Knudsen is the 938th bishop consecrated in the Episcopal Church. She was consecrated as a bishop by Frank T. Griswold, Frederick Wolf, and Geralyn Wolf.

Knudsen is the eldest of four siblings. Growing up in a navy family, she spent a large part of her childhood overseas in places such as Guam, Japan, and the Philippines. She studied biology and ecology at Chatham College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1968. She then attended the University of Pittsburgh for graduate studies and taught at her alma mater. Knudsen then taught in a nursing program at a community college and worked as a counselor at women's health clinics in Pennsylvania and Illinois.

As a young woman Knudsen felt a calling to the priesthood, but at that time the Episcopal Church was not ordaining women. Following the decision of the church to ordain women, Knudsen attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, earning a M. Div. degree in 1980. She was ordained a deacon in 1980 followed by ordination to the priesthood in 1981. She first served in Bolingbrook, Illinois, working to establish a new mission there. She later worked as Pastoral Care Officer/Canon for Pastoral Care in the Diocese of Chicago.

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