The Rt. Rev. Jeffrey D. Lee, Bishop of Chicago
On November 10, 2007 the 170th Annual Convention of the Diocese of Chicago elected the Rev. Jeffrey D. Lee, rector of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Medina, Washington as the 12th Bishop of Chicago. Lee succeeds the Rt. Rev. William D. Persell who resigned office effective with Lee's consecration on February 2, 2008, and then retired after nine years as Bishop of Chicago.
Bishop Lee was ordained and consecrated as the 12th Bishop of Chicago on Saturday, February 2, 2008 at the House of Hope Arena, 752 E. 114th Street, Chicago; and seated as diocesan bishop in St. James Cathedral on Sunday February 3, 2008.
Lee is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Nashotah House Seminary, and was ordained priest in the Diocese of Northern Indiana in 1985. After serving there as curate and then canon to the ordinary and church developer, Lee was called as rector of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in River Hills, Wisconsin in 1994. Six years later he accepted the call to Medina, Washington. |
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Lee is the author of Opening the Prayer Book in the New Church's Teaching Series; a member of the faculty of CREDO Institute; and has served on the boards of the North American Association of the Diaconate, the Council of Associated Parishes, and Affirming Catholicism. He has served as deputy to the 2000 and 2006 General Convention of The Episcopal Church. In 2008 he became an associate of the Society of St. John the Evangelist.
He and his wife Lisa Rogers Lee have two children: Katherine and Jonathan.
Email Bishop Lee at bishop@episcopalchicago.org
To schedule visitations or arrange appointments with Bishop Lee contact his administrative assistant, Anne Cothran, at (312) 751-4217.
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