Mary Gray-Reeves

Mary Gray-Reeves became the first woman Episcopal diocesan bishop in California on November 10, 2007, when she was ordained and consecrated the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real at services in Saratoga.WordPress › Error She had formerly been the archdeacon for deployment in the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida.Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida
==Early life and education==
Mary Gray-Reeves was born in Coral Gables, Florida, in the early 1960s and grew up in the Miami neighborhood of Coconut Grove, where she attended St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. After high school, she attended California State University, Fullerton, from which she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1987. After her decision to seek holy orders, she and her husband, Michael Reeves, went to New Zealand because she could attend theological school at St John's College, Auckland, while he could attend to his business which involved much travel in the western Pacific. In 1994 she graduated from St John's and received the equivalent of the American Master of Divinity degree.
==Career==
After she and her husband returned to California, she was ordained deacon and then priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. After being assistant rector of two churches in that diocese, she and her husband returned to the Miami area where she became rector of St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Miami Lakes. After six years at St. Margaret's she was appointed archdeacon for deployment for the diocese of Southeast Florida. On June 16, 2007, the Diocese of El Camino Real at convention in Monterey elected Mary Gray-Reeves its third bishop.wfn.org | [ELO] Mary Gray-Reeves elected as third bishop of Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real
==Family==
Mary Gray-Reeves and her husband, Michael Reeves, have two teen-aged children,Katherine and Dorian.
==See also==
*Succession of Bishops of The Episcopal Church (U.S.). Mary Gray-Reeves is # 1022 on the list.
==References==
==External links==
*Diocese of El Camino Real website
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