Michael Curry (bishop)
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The Most Reverend Michael B. Curry |
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| 27th Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church | |
Curry in 2016 wearing a miter and vestments
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| Church | Episcopal Church |
| Diocese | Non-territorial/non-metropolitical |
| Installed | November 1, 2015 |
| Predecessor | Katharine Jefferts Schori |
| Other posts | Bishop of North Carolina |
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| Ordination |
June 1978 (deacon) |
| Consecration | June 17, 2000 by Robert Hodges Johnson |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 13, 1953 Chicago, Illinois |
| Nationality | United States |
| Spouse | Sharon |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Yale Divinity School |
June 1978 (deacon)
Michael Bruce Curry (born March 13, 1953) is the 27th and current Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church. Elected in 2015, he is the first African American to serve in that capacity. He was previously bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina.
Curry says in his autobiography that both sides of his family were descended from slaves and sharecroppers in North Carolina and Alabama. He was born in Chicago and attended public schools in Buffalo, New York. He graduated with high honors from Hobart College in Geneva, New York, in 1975. He then earned a Master of Divinity degree in 1978 from the Yale Divinity School. Curry has also studied at The College of Preachers, Princeton Theological Seminary, Wake Forest University, the Ecumenical Institute at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, and the Institute of Christian Jewish Studies.
Curry was ordained deacon in June 1978 and priest in December 1978. He served initially as deacon-in-charge and subsequently as rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (1978–1982) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; then as rector of St. Simon of Cyrene Episcopal Church in Lincoln Heights, Ohio (1982–1988). He served as rector of St. James' Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland (1988–2000). In his three parish ministries, Curry participated in crisis response pastoral care, the founding of ecumenical summer day camps for children, preaching missions, creation of networks of family day care providers, and the brokering of investment in inner city neighborhoods. He inspired a $2.5 million restoration of the St. James' church building after a fire.
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