Sean W. Rowe
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The Right Reverend Sean Walter Rowe |
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| Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania Bishop Provisional of Bethlehem |
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| Church | Episcopal Church |
| Diocese |
Northwestern Pennsylvania Bethlehem |
| See | Erie Bethlehem |
| Elected | 19 May 2007 |
| In office | 2007 — present |
| Predecessor | Robert D. Rowley, Jr. |
| Successor | incumbent |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 2 December 2000 |
| Consecration | 8 September 2007 by Katharine Jefferts Schori |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 16, 1975 Sharon, Pennsylvania 
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| Spouse | Carly Rowe |
Sean W. Rowe (born February 16, 1975) is the eighth and current Episcopal Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania.
Rowe graduated from Grove City College and Virginia Theological Seminary. He was, at age 24, the youngest Episcopal priest in the United States at the time of his ordination, in December 2000. He was rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Franklin, Pennsylvania, in the Diocese of Northwestern PA.
At the time of his election, Rowe was 32 years old, and would become the youngest member of the House of Bishops. Rowe was elected on the first ballot from a slate of four candidates, with 64 lay votes and 29 clergy votes. The election was at the Cathedral of Saint Paul in Erie, Pennsylvania on May 19, 2007. In October 2009, Bishop Rowe was granted an honorary doctorate in divinity from the Virginia Theological Seminary. Bishop Rowe received an appointment to the Theology faculty at Gannon University, PA, in 2008.
Rowe was consecrated on September 8, 2007. The consecrators included Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, Rowe's predecessor Bishop Robert D. Rowley, Jr., retired Bishop J. Mark Dyer of the Diocese of Bethlehem, Ralph E. Jones, bishop of the Northwestern PA Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Arthur Williams, retired Bishop suffragan of the Diocese of Ohio, and Wayne P. Wright, bishop of Delaware.
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