Cathleen Chittenden Bascom

Cathleen Chittenden Bascom
The Right Reverend; Cathleen Chittenden Bascom; D.Min.
	bishop coadjutor of Kansas
Church	Episcopal Church
Diocese	Kansas
Elected	October 19, 2018
Predecessor	Dean E. Wolfe
Orders
Ordination	June 9, 1990 (deacon), December 15, 1990 (priest); by William Edward Smalley (deacon), Frank Tracy Griswold III (priest)
Consecration	March 2, 2019
Personal details
Born	1962
Nationality	American
Denomination	Anglican
Spouse	Tim Bascom
Children	2
Previous post	assistant professor of religion and philosophy, Waldorf University (2014-2018), dean, Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Des Moines, Iowa
Alma mater	University of Kansas

Cathleen Chittenden Bascom (born 1962) is the tenth and current bishop Episcopal Diocese of Kansas. She was elected on the second ballot by the diocesan convention on October 19, 2018. The other two candidates were also women. It was the first time in the Episcopal Church that the entire slate of candidates for the election of a bishop were women. She is the first woman to serve as bishop of the diocese.[1] She was ordained bishop by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry at Grace Cathedral in Topeka on March 2, 2019. She is the first woman to serve as bishop of Kansas.[2]

She was raised in Denver, Colorado. She graduated from the University of Kansas in 1984 where she experienced her call to ministry. He later earned an M.Div. at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in 1990, an M.A. in modern literature at Exeter University in 1991, a D.Min. in preaching from Iliff School of Theology in 2005, and an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University in 2017.

From 1993 to 2001 she served as a campus minister at Kansas State. From 2001 to 2007 she rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Newtown, Iowa. She was dean of the Cathedral of St. Paul in Des Moines, Iowa, from 2007 to 2014 when she became an assistant professor of religion at Waldorf University.[3][4]

Books

Of Green Stuff Woven. Light Messages, 2020 ISBN 978-1611533361

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References

lwilson (2018-10-19). "Cathleen Chittenden Bascom elected 10th bishop of the Diocese of Kansas". Episcopal News Service. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
Paulsen, David (2019-03-04). "Cathleen Bascom is consecrated as 10th bishop of Kansas". Episcopal News Service. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH ANNUAL. NEW YORK: MOREHOUSE Publishing. 2020. p. 336. ISBN 1-64065-274-4. OCLC 1121280274.
Kautz, Lydia (February 23, 2019). "First woman Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas stops by Emporia church". Emporia Gazette. Retrieved 2020-07-25.

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[1] wilson (2018-10-19). "Cathleen Chittenden Bascom elected 10th bishop of the Diocese of Kansas". Episcopal News Service. Retrieved 2020-07-25.

[2] Paulsen, David (2019-03-04). "Cathleen Bascom is consecrated as 10th bishop of Kansas". Episcopal News Service. Retrieved 2020-07-25.

[3] EPISCOPAL CHURCH ANNUAL. NEW YORK: MOREHOUSE Publishing. 2020. p. 336. ISBN 1-64065-274-4. OCLC 1121280274.

[4] Kautz, Lydia (February 23, 2019). "First woman Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas stops by Emporia church". Emporia Gazette. Retrieved 2020-07-25.