Our Bishops
The Right Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton
Bishop of Maryland
The Rt. Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton, Bishop of the Diocese of Maryland, is a frequent leader of retreats and conferences on spirituality and prayer. Formerly the Canon Pastor of Washington National Cathedral and Director of the Center for Prayer and Pilgrimage, he has served as a college chaplain, parish priest and professor in homiletics and liturgy at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. The author of several articles on spiritual practices and preaching, he is a contributor to the book The Diversity of Centering Prayer.
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The Right Rev. John L. Rabb
Bishop Suffragan
John L. Rabb was elected bishop suffragan of Maryland on March 28, 1998 and was consecrated on October 10, 1998 in Alumni Hall of St. James School in St. James, Maryland. Bishop Rabb was named bishop-in-charge upon the April 2007 retirement of Robert Ihloff. He resumed his duties as bishop suffragan in June, 2008, following the consecration of the 14th bishop of Maryland, the Rt. Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton.
Born in Des Moines, Iowa on October 11, 1944, Bishop Rabb received a B.A. in history from DePauw University in 1966, an M.A. in history from the University of Iowa in 1969 and an M.Div from the Episcopal Divinity School in l976. He has done continuing education with the College of Preachers, 1981, 1982 and 1991, the Institute for Servant Leadership, 1988, 1991 and 1994 and the Alban Institute, 1992 and 1997. In the fall and winter of 2004 Bishop Rabb was a Fellow in Residence at the Franciscan International Study Centre, Canterbury, England, UK.
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The Right Rev. Joe Goodwin Burnett
Assistant Bishop
Bishop Burnett will become Assistant Bishop of Maryland on April 1, 2011.
Bishop Burnett was ordained and consecrated Bishop of Nebraska on September 13, 2003. A native Mississippian, he attended public schools, and graduated from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, with a B.A. in 1970. He later earned M.Div. and D.Min. degrees from Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, in Dallas. In 2005 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from The General Theological Seminary in New York City. Drawn to the Episcopal Church during his seminary years, he was confirmed in 1972, and became a postulant and then candidate for holy orders from the diocese of Mississippi. He was ordained deacon in 1974, and priest in 1975. In Mississippi, he served a succession of parishes for twenty-five years before becoming Professor of Pastoral Theology at the School of Theology of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1999.
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