title: Episcopal Diocese of Vermont
text: # Episcopal Diocese of Vermont
  
  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.
  
  ## 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.
  * 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)
  