Samuel Howard
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| The Right Reverend Samuel Johnson Howard |
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| Bishop of Florida | |
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| Church | Episcopal Church |
| See | Florida |
| In office | 2004–present |
| Predecessor | Stephen Hays Jecko |
| Successor | Incumbent |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1990 |
| Consecration | November 1, 2003 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 8, 1951 North Carolina |
Samuel Johnson Howard (born September 8, 1951) is the eighth bishop of the Diocese of Florida in the U.S. Episcopal Church.[1] Howard was elected bishop coadjutor on May 16, 2003, and entered office on January 29, 2004.
Early career
Howard was born on September 8, 1951, and is a North Carolina native. He is a 1973 graduate of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and has been married to his wife, Martha Marie, since 1974. They have two grown sons, Augustus and Charles.
Howard graduated from the Wake Forest University School of Law in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1976. He practiced law in Raleigh, North Carolina, from 1976 to 1986. He also worked on the staff of the Commerce Committee of the United States Senate.
Religious career
Howard radically changed his career by returning to school and graduating from Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia, with a Master of Divinity degree. He was ordained as a deacon in June 1989 and a year later was ordained as a priest. His first position was assistant to the rector of the Church of the Holy Comforter in Charlotte, North Carolina, then rector of St. James' Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.[2]
Howard served as vicar of Trinity Church Wall Street from December 1997 until going to Florida in 2003.
References
- ↑ St. John's Cathedral website: Bishop Howard biography Archived October 10, 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Rutgers University Andromeda project: Samuel Johnson Howard bio Archived October 13, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Pages with broken file links
- Infobox person using a missing image
- 1951 births
- Living people
- American Episcopalians
- American Episcopal priests
- Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America
- People from North Carolina
- Williams College alumni
- Wake Forest University School of Law alumni
- Virginia Theological Seminary alumni
