| The Rt Revd Samuel Johnson Howard | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Florida | |
| Church | The Episcopal Church |
| See | Florida |
| In Office | 2004 — present |
| Predecessor | Stephen Hays Jecko 1994-2004 |
| Successor | Incumbent |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1990 |
| Consecration | November 1, 2003 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 8, 1951 North Carolina |
The Right Reverend Samuel Johnson Howard (born September 8, 1951) is the eighth bishop of the Diocese of Florida in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.[1] Howard was elected bishop Coadjutor on May 16, 2003 and entered office on January 29, 2004.
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Bishop Howard was born September 8, 1951 and is a North Carolina native. He is a 1973 graduate of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts and has been married to his wife, Martha Marie, since 1974. They have two grown sons, Augustus and Charles.
Howard graduated from the Wake Forest University School of Law in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1976. He practiced law in Raleigh, North Carolina from 1976 through 1986. He also worked on the staff of the Commerce Committee of the United States Senate.
Bishop Howard radically changed his career by returning to school and graduating from Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia with a Masters of Divinity. He was ordained as a deacon in June, 1989, and a year later was ordained as a priest.
His first position was Assistant to the Rector of Holy Comforter in Charlotte, North Carolina, then Rector of St. James' Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.[2]
Howard served as Vicar of Trinity Church Wall Street from December, 1997 until he left for Florida in 2003.