Bishop Search
Educational Resources

Bulletin Inserts

Below you will find links to PDF (portable document format) bulletin inserts ready to print and cut into half sheet size as inserts for your weekly bulletins. The topics offered in the bulletin inserts include the role of bishops in the early Church, the history of bishops in Maryland, bishops around the Anglican Communion, bishops in other denominations, and an overview sheet. One insert is targeted specifically for children and is designed to be approached with crayons in hand. Contributors to these bulletins included several clergy from around the Diocese, as well as Tom Ferguson, associate deputy for The Episcopal Church's office of Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations. The inserts might also work in a newsletter mailing. Use them as needed to begin a discussion about the Bishop Search process as we move forward. The content is appropriate for immediate use, as well as leading up to the consecration of our next bishop.

What is a Bishop? (9 mb)

Bishops around the Anglican Communion. (4 mb)

Bishops of Maryland.(10 mb)

A History of Bishops from the Early Church to 1534 A.D. (13 mb)

Who will be the next Bishop of Maryland? (7 mb)
(An insert for children)

Seeking a Shepherd

Our search for the Fourteenth Bishop of Maryland offers our Diocese a great opportunity to reflect on what the Episcopal Church understands its episcopacy to be. This curriculum is intended to equip electors, and those who will elect them, to make wise and informed decisions. It highlights the role of the bishop: from historical and modern perspectives, from the perspective of a particular church in the worldwide Anglican Communion, and from the perspective of a particular Diocese within the Episcopal Church. It is an invitation to study, learn, and pray together about what we desire in a bishop, and to consider what issues might engage us and our new bishop in the future.

Download Seeking a Shepherd
(170 kb PDF)