Susan Goff

The Right Reverend
Susan E. Goff
Church Episcopal Church (United States)
Diocese Virginia
Orders
Ordination c. 1980
Consecration 28 July 2012
by Katharine Schori
Personal details
Denomination Anglicanism
Alma mater Douglass College
Union Theological Seminary (New York City)

Susan Ellyn Goff is an American Anglican bishop. Since 2012, she has been the suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. She was consecrated as a bishop on July 28, 2012.

Early life and education

Goff was educated at Douglass College, then a woman's liberal arts college in New Brunswick, New Jersey.[1] She trained for ordination at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and achieved a distinction in her Master of Divinity (MDiv) degree.[2]

Ordained ministry

Goff was ordained in 1980.[1] She has spent all of her ordained ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.[2][1]

On July 28, 2012, Goff was consecrated a bishop during a service at S. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia. The chief consecrator was Katharine Jefferts Schori (the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church), and the co-consecrators included Shannon S. Johnston (the Bishop of Virginia).[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Cherry, Emily (July 31, 2012). "Susan Ellyn Goff ordained bishop suffragan for Virginia". Episcopal News Service. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Bishop Goff". The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
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