Kevin D. Nichols
Kevin Donnelly Nichols is the ninth and current bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem. Biography. On April 28, 2018, Nichols was elected Bishop of Bethlehem on the first ballot of a special convention that took place in the Cathedral of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was consecrated on September 15, 2018 at the First Presbyterian Church in Allentown, Pennsylvania by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry. He was installed in the Cathedral of the Nativity on October 12, 2018. Since the 1970s and continuing to the 2020s, the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem has been a significant epicenter  of local underage sexual abuse and clergy complaints in both the Episcopal Church and the Roman Catholic Church. Nichols was originally ordained a Roman Catholic priest after receiving his Master of Divinity from St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore. On December 11, 1999 he was received into the Episcopal priesthood and became rector of St Stephen's Church in Pittsfield, New Hampshire and then of St Andrew's Church in Hopkinton, New Hampshire. He was also chief operating officer and canon for mission resources in the Diocese of New Hampshire.