The Episcopal Diocese of Vermont is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the state of Vermont. It was the first diocese in the Episcopal Church to elect a woman, Mary Adelia Rosamond McLeod, as diocesan bishop.
The see city is Burlington, where the Cathedral Church of St. Paul is located.
The diocese reported 6,539 members in 2015 and 4,045 members in 2023; no membership statistics were reported in 2024 parochial reports. Plate and pledge income for the 43 filing congregations of the diocese in 2024 was $3,879,184. Average Sunday attendance (ASA) in 2024 was 1,378 persons, down from 2,126 in 2016.
Bishops 1. John Henry Hopkins, 1832–1868; 2. William H. A. Bissell, 1868–1893; 3. Arthur C. A. Hall, 1894–1929 William Farrar Weeks, coadjutor, 1913–1914; George Y. Bliss, coadjutor, 1915–1924; Samuel B. Booth, coadjutor, 1925–1929 4. Samuel B. Booth, 1929–1935; 5. Vedder Van Dyck, 1936–1960; 6. Harvey Butterfield, 1961–1973; 7. Robert S. Kerr, 1974–1986; Daniel L. Swenson, coadjutor, 1986; 8. Daniel L. Swenson, 1987–1993; 9. Mary Adelia Rosamond McLeod, 1993–2001; 10. Thomas Clark Ely, 2001–2019.Episcopal News Service, The Episcopal Church in Vermont announces slate of candidates for 11th bishop diocesan, 25 March 2019 11. Shannon MacVean-Brown, (2019–present)
On May 18, 2019, the church elected Shannon MacVean-Brown as the eleventh Bishop of Vermont. Macvean-Brown was consecrated on September 28, 2019 in Ira Allen Chapel in Burlington. Macvean-Brown is the first African-American Bishop of Vermont.
Diocesan churches of historical interest Present or former diocesan churches listed on the National Register of Historic Places include: Christ Church (Guilford, Vermont) Church of Our Saviour (Killington, Vermont) St. Ann's Episcopal Church (Richford, Vermont) St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church (Montgomery, Vermont) St. John's Episcopal Church (Highgate Falls, Vermont) St. James' Episcopal Church (Arlington, Vermont)
References
External links Official Web site of the Diocese of Vermont Journal of the Annual Convention, Diocese of Vermont at the Online Books Page The Correspondence of John A. Graham with His Grace of Canterbury: When on His Mission as Agent of the Church of Vermont, to the Ecclesiastical Courts of Canterbury and York, for the consecration of Dr. Peters, Bishop-elect of Vermont, 1794–5, etc. 1835